14/Sep/2026, 1:26 PM
Männiku, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Pine forest, within pine needle litter, in mossy sandy soil
59°21'31.1"N 24°42'44.8"E
🌡️ 15°C ☀️ Sunny 💨 Wind 10° N->S, 9 km/h
Original Instagram postClitocybe fragrans
Fragrant Funnel
- Scientific identification
- Clitocybe fragrans (With.) P. Kumm.
- Family
- Tricholomataceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Clitocybe
Names across languages
- English: Fragrant Funnel
- German: Langstieliger Duft-Trichterling
- Finnish: Anismalikka
- Estonian: Lõhnav lehtrik
- Russian: Говорушка благоухающая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-14.
Hymenium
Gills moderately crowded, cream to pale beige or faintly pinkish
Cap
Convex when young, later flat to shallowly depressed or funnel-shaped; smooth, hygrophanous; beige to pale buff when moist, almost white when dry; margin translucently striate
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to slightly decurrent
Stipe
Slender, cylindrical, smooth to slightly fibrillose; cream, pale buff; base with white mycelial tomentum; ring absent
Spore print
Spore print pale cream, sometimes faintly orange-cream
Ecology
Saprobic among leaf litter, moss and humus in deciduous, mixed and coniferous forests, hedgerows, parkland and grasslands; solitary or in small groups; late summer to autumn
Edibility
Not recommended; edibility disputed and easily confused with toxic species
Fruit body
Fruit body small; stipe ~2.5–6.5 cm long and ~0.2–0.5 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~1–4(–5) cm
Flesh
Whitish to pale cream, thin and fragile, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
No macroscopic reagents reaction
Odour
Distinctly sweet, aniseed to bitter-almond-like
Taste
Mild to slightly sweetish
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, ~6.5–9 × 3.5–5 µm; basidia 4-spored; cystidia absent; pileipellis a cutis; clamp connections present
Overview
Small pale hygrophanous funnel with a distinctive aniseed scent
1871). Führ. Pilzk. (Zerbst): 121.
Field encounters
Source hashtags
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