Strumpshaw Fen Mycological Survey 2023

Laccaria laccata

LOCATION FOUND: 

The Dell

DATE FOUND: 

Day 1 – 12 August 2023

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These grew in scattered all around the path in open grass and on soil or in leaf litter, near hazel.

They were very variable in appearance:

Some had cream caps with relatively small cinnamon-buff caps, with larger, light brown stems.

The edges of the caps on some were striated slightly, or orange-brown.

Some had a striated edge.

Others were the more typical peach colour.