Lilac Bonnet

Poisonous

Autumn

Summer

The Lilac Bonnet, Mycena pura.

This mushroom was once considered edible but contains small amounts of muscarine so is now off the menu.

Mushroom Type
Common Names	Lilac Bonnet (EN), Bonet Lelog (CY), Grzybówka Fioletowawa (PL), Retekszagú Kígyógomba (HU)
Scientific Name	Mycena pura
Season Start	Jul
Season End	Nov
Average Mushroom height (CM)	10
Average Cap width (CM)	5

Please note that each and every mushroom you come across may vary in appearance to these photos.

Cap

Convex, lilac to pink with a darker umbo and radial lines more obvious towards the edge sometimes with a pale to white margin.

Gills off white with a lilac hint, fairly spaced.

Pink to lilac, thin, sometime twisted with small, fine white woolly patches.

White to lilac.

In mixed and deciduous woods growing on the leaf litter.

Rosy Bonnet (Mycena rosea), pictured, which is larger than the Lilac Bonnet, but some people consider that the two mushrooms are the same.

White. Ellipsoid to cylindrical. You should scrape your spores into a small pile to get an accurate spore colour.

Has a faint smell of radish.

Common.

The gills of the Lilac Bonnet are a phosphorescent and glow in the dark.