Club Foot Fungus - Ampulloclitocybe clavipes
A large mushroom, with greyish-buff or brownish cap, strongly decurrent white or cream gills, and a bulbous stipe with club-shaped base. Spores are white.
Funnels - e.g. Trooping Funnel Clitocybe geotropa
Photograph from top down, in side view and underneath to show gills; ensure you have photographed the full length of the stipe including base. Note habitat and substrate.
Under trees, often under conifers.
Late summer and autumn.
Usually grows singly, rarely in clumps.
Widespread and quite common in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Club Foot
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Hygrophoraceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 11
- First record:
- 18/09/2011 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 09/11/2023 (Devine, Ben)
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