Mycena rosea    (Bull.) Gramberg 

common name(s) : Rosy Bonnet, Pink Mycena 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Mycenaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Marasmiaceae/Collybieae  

synonyms: Mycena pura-rosea 

edibility : poisonous

photo gallery of Mycena rosea
photo gallery of Mycena rosea potential confusions with Mycena rosea toxicity of Mycena rosea genus Mycena  

The cap is pink, paler at the centre, convex to flat, with a broad umbo; its margin is striate. The cap surface is smooth.

The stem is white to slightly pink, slightly swollen towards base, without ring.

The flesh is white to pinkish, unchanging; its taste is faint to mild, of radish; the odour is radish-like; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white to pale pink, adnate to emarginate, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in deciduous woods, and sometimes with conifers, on a rather calcareous soil, most of the time with beech.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 4 cm (between 2 and 7 cm)
  height of stem approximately 8 cm (between 4 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 8 mm (between 3 and 15 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Pink cap, with striate margin and a slight umbo (not depressed) at its centre; pale pink gills; white stem, sometimes washed with pink, slightly club-shaped; smell of radish

Mycena rosea is frequent and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Mycena rosea in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Mycena rosea in the forest of Rambouillet



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