Bleeding Bonnet - Mycena sanguinolenta

A small to medium Mycena with a conical or bell-shaped striate cap. pale brown in colour with a wine-red tint and reddish centre.   The gills are white or pale grey to pale brownish-pink, with a red-brown coloured edge. The stipe, gills and cap exudes a reddish-brown fluid. 

The Burgundydrop Bonnet also exudes a reddish fluid, but is more robust with a pruinose, not striate, cap.

red fluid

Photograph from top down, in side view and underneath to show gills; photograph reddish fluid oozing from cut or bruised cap, stem or gills; note habitat and substrate.

Grows on forest floor litter and dead wood mainly under conifers.

Autumn.

Widespread in Britain in areas of conifer woodland.

Uncommon and local in Leicestershire and Rutland.