White Spindles
From the latest record: 2026-09-03.
Smooth, covering most of the outer club surface; short basal portion sterile
Slender, cylindrical to narrowly club-shaped, usually unbranched, straight to wavy and sometimes slightly flattened or longitudinally grooved; pure white to cream, tips becoming pale yellow then brownish with age
Fertile surface continuous over the club
Indistinct; short, slightly narrowed, often translucent sterile basal zone
Spore print white
Saprobic on soil in unimproved grasslands, meadows, mossy lawns, woodland edges and clearings, occasionally leaf litter; usually densely tufted; summer to late autumn
Insubstantial for food
Fruit body small to medium; individual clubs ~2–12(–15) cm tall and ~3–5(–7) mm thick
White, very thin, soft and extremely brittle
Spores ellipsoid to pip-shaped, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, ~5–7 × 3–4 µm; basidia clavate, 4-spored, ~30–50 × 6–8 µm; cystidia absent; hyphae monomitic, thin-walled, without clamp connections
Fragile white fairy clubs forming dense tufts in old grassland
1790). Beata Ruris Otia FUNGIS DANICIS 1: 7.
Soodla jõgi, Anija, Harju, Eesti
Mixed (conifer dominant) forest woodland edge grassland (Pilosella sp., Calluna sp.), in mossy soil
59°23'13.9"N 25°23'46.4"E
🌡️ 17°C 🌥️ Partly sunny 💨 Wind 240° WSW->ENE, 15 km/h
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