Common Bonnet
From the latest record: 2026-10-03.
Gills moderately spaced; white to pale grey when young, often becoming pinkish-grey with age; short lamellulae frequent, cross-veins often developing between mature gills
Conical to bell-shaped when young, later broadly convex to nearly flat with a persistent low umbo; smooth to slightly rugose, translucent-striate toward margin; grey-brown, darker centrally and paler toward margin
Adnate to emarginate, sometimes with a short decurrent tooth
Slender, hollow, tough and elastic; whitish near apex, grey-brown to dark brown below; base with coarse white fibrils, rooting into decayed wood; ring absent
Spore print white
Saprobic on well-decayed hardwood logs, stumps, fallen branches and buried wood; solitary to densely clustered; late spring to late autumn
Edible but insubstantial
Fruit body small to medium; stipe ~4.5–11(–18) cm long and ~0.15–0.6 cm thick
Cap ∅ ~2–6.5 cm
Whitish to pale grey, thin and fragile, unchanging when cut
KOH negative on cap surface
Indistinct to faintly mealy
Mealy
Spores broadly ellipsoid to pip-shaped, smooth, amyloid, ~9–12 × 6–8 µm; basidia 2- or 4-spored; pleurocystidia absent; clamp connections present in 4-spored forms
Large grey-brown wood bonnet with pinking gills and a tough rooting stipe
1821). Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 619.
Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban broadleaf park, horse-chestnuts, ashes, hawthorns, linden and oaks, on decayed old hardwood buried stump
59°26'17.3"N 24°47'45.1"E
🌡️ 13°C ☁️ Low clouds 💨 Wind 180° S->N, 9 km/h
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