Scurfy Twiglet - Tubaria furfuracea

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Alternative names
Winter Twiglet
Description

Cap 1 to 4cm across, convex then flattened or centrally depressed, cinnamon to tan and striate from margin inwards when moist, drying pale buff and slightly scurfy. Spore print brown, spores sub-cylindrical, 6-10 x 4-6µm. 

Identification difficulty
Habitat

Found on woody debris, twigs etc.

When to see it

All year, particularly in autumn to early winter.

UK Status

Very common throughout Britain

VC55 Status

Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland.

  • Graham Calow
    Burbage Common and Woods
    10 October 2012
  • Graham Calow
    Burbage Common and Woods
    10 October 2012
    underside
  • Melinda Bell
    Willesley Wood
    10 October 2022
  • Andy's Rutland
    Bunker's Hill-Empingham
    04 December 2018
  • Andy's Rutland
    Bunker's Hill-Empingham
    04 December 2018
  • David Nicholls
    Croft Pasture
    09 May 2014

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Species profile

Common names
Scurfy Twiglet
Species group:
Fungi
Kingdom:
Fungi
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Tubariaceae
Records on NatureSpot:
23
First record:
01/03/2010 (Calow, Graham)
Last record:
03/11/2023 (Graves, Hazel)

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  • David Nicholls
    Sheet Hedges Wood
    02 January 2012
  • Graham Calow
    Fosse Meadows Sharnford
    09 February 2011
  • David Nicholls
    Ratby Burroughs
    17 November 2011
  • David Nicholls
    Sheet Hedges Wood
    02 January 2012
  • David Nicholls
    Ulverscroft
    18 May 2012
  • AJ Cann
    Charley Woods
    31 October 2015
  • Andy's Rutland
    Bunker's Hill-Empingham
    04 December 2018
  • Andy's Rutland
    Bunker's Hill-Empingham
    04 December 2018
  • Saharima Roenisch
    Swithland Wood
    06 December 2017
  • Alan Semper
    Barkestone Wood, Jubilee Way
    04 March 2015
    About 25mm dia