vampire's bane
From the latest record: 2026-07-04.
Gills whitish, close to almost distant, narrowly attached to the stipe
Convex to broadly convex or bell-shaped, often with a small central depression or bump; dry, smooth to slightly wrinkled; reddish-brown when young, fading to buff or pale tan
Adnate to adnexed, sometimes almost free
Very slender, tough, wiry, shiny and mostly smooth; pale near apex, reddish-dark-brown-blackish toward base
Spore print white
Saprobic on fallen conifer needles, twigs, bark, leaf litter, grass stems and woody debris; scattered to gregarious, summer to late autumn
Edible, dried and used for strong garlic flavouring
Fruit body small; stipe up to ~6 cm long, ~0.5–3 mm thick
Cap ∅ ~0.2–3 cm
Flesh very thin, pale, insubstantial, unchanging when cut
No distinctive macroscopic reaction
Very distinctive garlic-like to onion-like
Strongly garlic-like, sharp
Spores smooth, ellipsoid to pip-shaped, inamyloid, ~6–10(–11) × 3–5 µm; pleurocystidia absent; cheilocystidia clavate to cylindrical or irregular, lobed, with knob-rod-like projections
Tiny white-pale-brownish garlic-scented marasmioid mushroom
2005). Mycologia 97(3): 678.
Kõrveküla, Lääne-Viru, Eesti
Conifer dominant forest clearing, garlic smelling grass patch, within Pilosella sp. and pine needle litter
59°14'06.9"N 25°39'11.9"E
🌡️ 17°C 🌦️ Sprinkles with dispersed sun 💨 Wind 10° N->S, 7 km/h
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