Redlead Roundhead - Leratiomyces ceres
A smallish mushroom associated with woodchip. The slightly sticky caps are bright red to orange with white veil remnants near the margins. The gills are greyish with white edges, and the stem is whitish, woolly-scaly below a ring-zone, discolouring orange-red near the base. There are white hyphal cords at the stem-base. The spores are smooth and purple-brown.
Several other brown or reddish-brown fungi can also be found on woodchip.
Photograph from top down, in side view and underneath to show gills and full length of stipe; note habitat and substrate.
Woodchips and sawdust
Most of the year.
An alien species from Australasia; now widespread (Kibby, Vol. 3, 2021)
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
taelarc96
Abbey Park
07 October 2021
taelarc96
Abbey Park
07 October 2021
Lostash
Winchester Avenue In Estate Path
20 November 2011
Lostash
Winchester Avenue In Estate Path
20 November 2011
taelarc96
Abbey Park
07 October 2021
CAPochin
University Botanic Gardens
30 November 2025
CAPochin
University Botanic Gardens
30 November 2025
CAPochin
University Botanic Gardens
30 November 2025
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Species profile
- Common names
- Redlead Roundhead
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Strophariaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 20/11/2011 (Watson, Ashley)
- Last record:
- 30/11/2025 (Pochin, Christine)
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