Mycena kuurkacea

Bleeding Mycena at Macquarie, ACT

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Mycena kuurkacea 11 Jul 2016 Heino

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Herbarium collection HL6121 at CANB

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Heino wrote:
   12 Jul 2016
These mushrooms grew from a layer of leaf and twig litter, about 15 cm deep, below a eucalypt in a suburban garden. The mushrooms of this species are reported to produce copious red fluid when damaged and I have seen that on one occasion. However, when I collected these specimens I could produce only a slight red bleeding (alas, too poor to show well in a photo). The scale in Photo 3 shows millimetres and in Photo 4 I show the reddish-brown gill edges found in this species.

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  • Mycena kuurkacea Scientific name
  • Bleeding Mycena Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 913m Recorded at altitude
  • Synonyms

    Mycena sanguinolenta

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