Gateshead Birders

Fungi

The Deceiver


Laccaria laccata

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Photo © Stephen Wales
October 2005 at Far Pasture NR

Height up to 8cm

A very variable fungus looking quite different when wet compared to when it was dry. Found among leaf litter in deciduous and coniferous woodlands, July­October. Widespread and common. Cap usually orange-brown and irregularly rounded. Gills pinkish buff and stem twisted, fibrous and concolorous with cap.

 


 



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