Mycena strobilicola

Hey dear Hive Community, I wish you all a pleasant day and hope you are well! I would like to bring you a little closer to a mushroom in this post today, which I photographed in the forest a few weeks ago and hope you find the contribution interesting.

Mycena strobilicola can be seen here and it is not an edible mushroom! You can find this mushroom in spring and one of the main characteristics by which you can easily recognize it is the intense chlorine smell. Mycena strobilicola appears in the months between March and May and the powder of the spores has a white color.

The mushroom body has a brown to ochre appearance and the stem is gray to white and is brittle. It is generally a smaller fungus that does not get higher than 3 cm and can usually be found in spruce forests and the distribution area is Europe, it grows on spruce cones which have fallen to the ground of the foreat.

By the way, there is a similar-looking edible mushroom with which you can confuse it and bears the name Sprucecone cap (Strobilurus esculentus), I have already written something about it in one of my last posts and the post can be found here. These two mushrooms grow very close together and therefore it is important to know the different characteristics, you can quickly notice the difference in the smell and appearance of the stem.

Many thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my new post! I used my camera Sony Alpha 6000 and Sony SEL-55210 Telephoto Zoom Lens (55-210mm) to take these pictures.