27/Sep/2025, 2:57 PM
Laiaküla raba, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Deciduous boggy forest, on decaying wet stump submerged in moss
59°28'02.9"N 24°53'25.6"E
🌡️ 14°C 🌤️ Passing clouds 💨 Wind 30° NNE->SSW, 11 km/h
Original Instagram postMycena viridimarginata
olive edge bonnet
- Scientific identification
- Mycena viridimarginata P.Karst.
- Family
- Mycenaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Mycena
Names across languages
- English: olive edge bonnet
- German: Grünschneidiger Helmling
- Finnish: Meripihkahiippo
- Estonian: Oliivmütsik
- Russian: Мицена зелёноокаймлённая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-09-27.
Hymenium
Gills, crowded, narrow, color whitish to pale gray initially, gill edges distinctly green-tinged
Cap
Starts conical to campanulate, flattening with age, surface pruinose when young, then glabrescent, hygrophanous and radiately striate when moist, colors olivaceous-grayish-greenish-brown, margins paler
Hymenium Attachment
Narrowly adnate to adnate, occasionally with a short decurrent tooth
Stipe
Hollow, fragile; smooth to pruinose above, glabrous below, coloration yellowish-brown, darkening toward base, apex pale, base covered in whitish fibrils
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprotrophic, growing on decaying wood of coniferous trees, summer to autumn
Description
Too small and unknown
Fruit body
Fruit body size medium, stipe 20–70 × 1–3 mm
Dimensions
Cap ⌀ ~10–40mm
Flesh
No notable color change when cut
Chemical reactions
No distinctive KOH reaction
Odour
Weakly nitrous
Taste
Slightly radish-like
Microscopy
Spores broadly subellipsoid to ovoid, smooth, amyloid; ~ 9–11.8 × 6–7.5 µm, Basidia 25–32 × 8–10 µm, slender-clavate, 4-spored, sterigmata 5–8 µm, cheilocystidia 23–70 × 7–18 (–29) µm
Overview
Delicate, somewhat slender bonnet mushroom notable for its olive-tinged gill edges
1892). Hedwigia 31: 218.
Field encounters
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