Yellowleg Bonnet

Mycena epipterygia – Inedible

Forests, parks, on rotten leaves, needles, twigs. Autumn, often even after frosts.

Fruiting bodies tiny. Cap 0.5-2 cm across, bell-shaped, when old almost flattened, with an umbo, slimy, the cuticle elastic, easily peeled, whitish-cream, lemon-yellow or even greyish-brownish. Gills white, yellowish, sticky, elastic, adnate. Stem 5-10x0.1-0.3 cm, lemon-yellow when young, later whitish-yellow, sheathed in a thick layer of slime. Flesh thin, tough, smelling of flour and grass, not bitter. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies tough, lemon-, whitish-yellow. Grows singly or several fruiting bodies together. Common. A litter saprotroph. Inedible. In Lithuania 56 species of Mycena have been recorded: saprotrophs of forest litter and wood, active decomposers of lignin and cellulose, fairly important in the life of the forest.