311/366 The bonnets are back

06 Friday Nov 2020

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Bonnet fungi, Bonnet mushroom, British fungi, Grooved bonnet, Mycena polygramma

It’s almost a year since I published the post Groovy bonnets (on 27 November 2019), about a troop of Grooved bonnet fungi (Mycena polygramma) that was growing on a tree in the green space around a local church.

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Since then, sadly, the tree they were growing on has mostly gone, blown down in one of our winter storms early this year – now, only the stump remains.

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But the fungi were still there, living silently unseen beneath the surface, until now, when they are fruiting again.

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And these gorgeous fungi are supporting other life – spot the millipede amongst the gills in my second photo.

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331/365 Groovy bonnets

27 Wednesday Nov 2019

Posted by sconzani in autumn, fungi, nature

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autumn fungi, Bonnet fungi, British fungi, Grooved bonnet, Mycena fungi, Mycena polygramma

Finally some fungi I can identify with confidence because, as Pat O’Reilly explains on the First Nature website,

Cap colour is rarely of much help when you are struggling to identify a Mycena, as they vary so much with age, location, humidity and growing substrate. If you look closely at the stem of a Grooved Bonnet you will see that it has longitudinal striations, whereas other common bonnet mushrooms have smooth stems.

So, the striated stems you can, hopefully, see in my second photo below prove that these lovely little bonnets I found growing in a tree in the grounds of a local church are … taaa daaa! … Grooved bonnets (Mycena polygramma).