Scurfy Twiglet - Tubaria furfuracea
Cap smooth and orangey-brown, drying paler, wth a few white veil flecks at margins; pale brown gills; stipe same colour as cap, with faint ring zone and white felty base. Spores brown.
Photograph from top down, in side view and from underneath to show gills and full length of stipe. Note habitat and substrate.
Found on woody debris, twigs etc.
All year, particularly in autumn to early winter.
Widespread and common (Kibby, Vol.4, 2023)
Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Burbage Common and Woods
10 October 2012
det. R Iliffe
Graham Calow
Burbage Common and Woods
10 October 2012
det. R Iliffe
Graham Calow
Burbage Common and Woods
10 October 2012
det. R Iliffe
Andy's Rutland
Bunker's Hill-Empingham
04 December 2018
conf. by expert
Andy's Rutland
Bunker's Hill-Empingham
04 December 2018
conf. by expert
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Species profile
- Common names
- Scurfy Twiglet
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Tubariaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 21
- First record:
- 01/03/2010 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 03/11/2023 (Graves, Hazel)
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