Redlead Roundhead

Redlead Roundhead - Leratiomyces ceres

Alternative names
Stropharia aurantiaca
Description

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.

Similar Species

Several other brown or reddish-brown fungi can also be found on woodchip. 

Identification difficulty
Recording advice

Photograph from top down, in side view and underneath to show gills and full length of stipe; note habitat and substrate.

Habitat

Woodchips and sawdust

When to see it

Most of the year.

UK Status

An alien species from Australasia; now widespread (Kibby, Vol. 3, 2021)

VC55 Status

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.

Leicestershire & Rutland Map

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Yellow squares = NBN records (all known data)
Coloured circles = NatureSpot records: 2025+ | 2020-2024 | pre-2020

UK Map

Additional images

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