Mycena galopus var. leucogala

black milking bonnet

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-10-12.

Gills, adnate to slightly decurrent, moderately spaced, whitish to pale gray, darkening slightly with age

Conical to bell-shaped, becoming broadly conical with age, smooth, moist, grayish-brown to pale brown, darker at the center, translucent when moist

Adnate to slightly decurrent

Slender, cylindrical, fragile, whitish to gray, exuding a white, milky latex when damaged, particularly near the base

Spore print: White

Saprobic, found in coniferous and mixed forests, growing on decaying leaf litter, wood, and soil, often in groups or scattered, late summer to autumn

Inedible, not considered poisonous but too small and insubstantial to be of culinary value

Fruit body small, stipe 4–8 cm long, 0.2–0.5 cm thick

Cap 1–2.5 cm in diameter

Odour indistinct, slightly earthy

Spores elliptical, smooth, 7–9 x 4–5 µm, inamyloid

Small, fragile mushroom with a conical, grayish-brown cap, white latex exuding from the stipe when damaged

1936, Fl. Agaric. Danic. 2: 36

Soodla jõgi, Harjumaa, Estonia

Spruce-pine-birch woodland, in moss

59°23'12.6"N 25°23'34.4"E

🔆 Occasional sun, partly cloudy, open spot