Fragrant Funnel - Clitocybe fragrans
Cap 1.5 to 4 cm, flat and sometimes slightly depressed. It is pale yellowish-brown when wet, whitish-cream when dry with darker centre. The margin is finely striate. The stem is concolorous with cap. This fungus has a strong aniseed fragrance.
Found amongst leaf litter, moss or grass beneath deciduous trees.
Late summer to early winter.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
Steve Mathers
Altar Stones NR
08 November 2017
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Species profile
- Common names
- Fragrant Funnel
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Tricholomataceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 6
- First record:
- 02/11/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 07/11/2022 (Bell, Melinda)
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Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
Steve Mathers
Altar Stones NR
08 November 2017
Steve Mathers
Altar Stones NR
08 November 2017
