╔══ Identifications · 16 October 20269 sightings
speciesCraterellus tubaeformis
locationReintal
habitatMossy coniferous forest, especially spruce
edibilityGood edible mushroom
├─ Key Features
- │ ▸ Hollow, trumpet-shaped cap, grey-brown to brown
- │ ▸ Grey, wrinkled veins (no true gills) under the cap
- │ ▸ Hollow, yellowish-brown stem widening towards the base
- │ ▸ Often grows in crowded groups in mossy spots
└─ Fruits late in the season; develops a fine flavour when dried.
speciesCraterellus tubaeformis
locationReintal
habitatMossy coniferous forest, especially spruce
edibilityGood edible mushroom
├─ Key Features
- │ ▸ Hollow, trumpet-shaped cap, grey-brown to brown
- │ ▸ Grey, wrinkled veins (no true gills) under the cap
- │ ▸ Hollow, yellowish-brown stem widening towards the base
- │ ▸ Often grows in crowded groups in mossy spots
└─ Fruits late in the season; develops a fine flavour when dried.
speciesCraterellus tubaeformis
locationReintal
habitatMossy coniferous forest, especially spruce
edibilityGood edible mushroom
├─ Key Features
- │ ▸ Hollow, trumpet-shaped cap, grey-brown to brown
- │ ▸ Grey, wrinkled veins (no true gills) under the cap
- │ ▸ Hollow, yellowish-brown stem widening towards the base
- │ ▸ Often grows in crowded groups in mossy spots
└─ Fruits late in the season; develops a fine flavour when dried.
speciesCraterellus tubaeformis
locationReintal
habitatMossy coniferous forest, especially spruce
edibilityGood edible mushroom
├─ Key Features
- │ ▸ Hollow, trumpet-shaped cap, grey-brown to brown
- │ ▸ Grey, wrinkled veins (no true gills) under the cap
- │ ▸ Hollow, yellowish-brown stem widening towards the base
- │ ▸ Often grows in crowded groups in mossy spots
└─ Fruits late in the season; develops a fine flavour when dried.
speciesCraterellus tubaeformis
locationReintal
habitatMossy coniferous forest, especially spruce
edibilityGood edible mushroom
├─ Key Features
- │ ▸ Hollow, trumpet-shaped cap, grey-brown to brown
- │ ▸ Grey, wrinkled veins (no true gills) under the cap
- │ ▸ Hollow, yellowish-brown stem widening towards the base
- │ ▸ Often grows in crowded groups in mossy spots
└─ Fruits late in the season; develops a fine flavour when dried.
speciesHydnum repandum
locationReintal
habitatMycorrhizal with beech, oak and spruce in broadleaf and mixed forest
edibilityExcellent edible mushroom
├─ Key Features
- │ ▸ Fleshy, irregular cap in warm cream to orange-buff tones
- │ ▸ Soft spines (teeth) instead of gills under the cap
- │ ▸ Spines run decurrently down the short, often off-centre stem
- │ ▸ Firm white flesh with a pleasant fruity smell
└─ Unmistakable thanks to its spines, which makes it safe to collect; young specimens can be pickled.
speciesLaccaria amethystina
locationReintal
habitatBroadleaf and coniferous forest, often with beech and oak, in troops
edibilityEdible but insignificant; watch for poisonous lookalikes (e.g. violet Cortinarius species)
├─ Key Features
- │ ▸ Intense violet colour over the whole fruit body when fresh
- │ ▸ Waxy, widely spaced thick gills
- │ ▸ Fibrous, tough stem
- │ ▸ Colour fades quickly to pale tan as it ages or dries
└─ The common name refers to how easily the violet colour 'deceives' — once faded, the mushroom blends into the forest floor and is easy to overlook.
speciesStropharia aeruginosa
locationReintal
habitatSaprotrophic on rotting wood, wood-chip mulch, grassy woodland, roadside verges and parks, spring to autumn
edibilityNot recommended — widely reported as poisonous, though a few European guides list it as edible with a mildly spicy taste; treat as inedible
├─ Key Features
- │ ▸ Vivid blue-green, glutinous cap 2–8 cm across, sprinkled with white veil remnants that sit as flecks near the margin
- │ ▸ The colour fades or washes off with rain and age, turning yellow-ochre — old caps lose the blue-green entirely
- │ ▸ White stem of even thickness with a fragile dark ring; below the ring fine white scales
- │ ▸ Gills white at first, then clay-brown, often with a paler edge; spore print brownish-purple
└─ Told apart from lookalikes by the slimy blue-green cap with white flecks combined with the dark ring on the white stem. Reported poisonous in many guidebooks, while a few European sources call it edible — with the toxic constituents undescribed and the effects unclear, it is not worth collecting. Wood-chip mulch in gardens and parks is its favourite substrate.
speciesXylaria hypoxylon
locationKochelberg
habitatSaprobic on dead and decaying stumps and logs of broadleaves, especially beech; also on buried wood
edibilityInedible — too small and tough to be of any culinary value
├─ Key Features
- │ ▸ Antler- or club-shaped, flattened, often branched fruit bodies like a tiny stag's horn
- │ ▸ Black, carbonaceous surface with powdery whitish-grey tips while young
- │ ▸ The pale tips darken as the sexual fruit bodies mature
- │ ▸ Grows in dense tufts on dead hardwood stumps and logs
└─ One of the most common decomposers of hardwood; the pale 'snuff' on the tips is the asexual conidial stage, which turns to sooty black as the perithecia mature.