Mycena sanguinolenta

bleeding bonnet

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2025-07-15.

Gills, well-spaced, initially sordid reddish to grayish, with even, dark-red-brown edges

Conical to broadly convex or bell-shaped, starting moist with whitish-grayish bloom that soon disappears, revealing a smooth, reddish-brown cap

Hymenium attachment adnate to slightly decurrent

Fragile, same color as cap, smooth to polished above, base with coarse stiff white hairs, exudes dark reddish-purple sap when broken

Spore print white

Ecology saprotrophic, growing in groups on leaf-litter, moss beds, acidic soils in conifer and deciduous forests, spring to autumn

Unknown; too insubstantial for culinary use

Exudes reddish-purple sap when injured

Fruit body small, stipe 2–6 cm × 1–1.5 mm

Cap 0.3–1.5 cm diameter

Indistinct

Indistinct

Spores ellipsoid, smooth, weakly amyloid, 8–10 × 4–5 µm; basidia 4-spored, abundant pleuro- and cheilocystidia filled with red pigment

Small mushroom that exudes reddish-purple sap when injured

1871). Führ. Pilzk. (Zerbst): 108.

Kadriorg, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Eesti

Urban park, Larix trees, grass-leaf litter

59°26'31.3"N 24°47'38.1"E

🌡️ 23°C 🌤️ Sunny after passing clouds