14/Sep/2026, 1:52 PM
Männiku, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Pine forest, within moss and organic wood and needle litter
59°21'30.0"N 24°42'44.0"E
🌡️ 15°C ☀️ Sunny 💨 Wind 20° NNE->SSW, 9 km/h
Original Instagram postMycena pura
Lilac Bonnet
- Scientific identification
- Mycena pura (Pers.) P. Kumm.
- Family
- Mycenaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Mycena
Names across languages
- English: Lilac Bonnet
- German: Gemeiner Rettich-Helmling
- Finnish: Sinipunahiippo
- Estonian: Lilla mütsik
- Russian: Мицена чистая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-14.
Hymenium
Gills moderately spaced, broad; whitish to pale pink, lilac-grey or violet-tinged, often developing cross-veins with age; edges concolorous
Cap
Conical to bell-shaped when young, later broadly convex to nearly flat, sometimes with a low umbo or shallow central depression; smooth, hygrophanous, translucent-striate toward margin; lilac, violet-grey, pinkish-purple
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to sinuate-adnate, sometimes with a short decurrent tooth
Stipe
Slender, cylindrical, hollow, tough and slightly elastic; whitish to pale pink, lilac or violet-grey; finely pruinose above, smooth below; base with conspicuous white fibrils; ring absent
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic among decaying leaf and needle litter, humus and forest debris; deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests, occasionally heathland and grassy woodland edges; alone, scattered or gregariously; summer to late autumn
Edibility
Poisonous, toxicity reported
Uses & compounds
Muscarine and epimuscarine in variable concentrations
Fruit body
Fruit body small to medium; stipe ~4–9 cm long and ~0.2–0.7 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~1–5 cm
Flesh
Whitish to pale lilac-grey, thin, watery and fragile, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
KOH negative to greenish-yellow on cap surface
Odour
Distinctive radish-like
Taste
Radish-like
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid to pip-shaped, smooth, hyaline, amyloid, ~6–9.5 × 3.5–5 µm; basidia predominantly 4-spored; cheilocystidia fusiform to clavate, ~25–75 × 11–18 µm; pleurocystidia similar; pileipellis a cutis; clamp connections present
Overview
Variable lilac-pink woodland bonnet with a distinctive radish-like odour
1871). Führ. Pilzk. (Zerbst): 107.
Field encounters
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