Plantpot Dapperling - Leucocoprinus birnbaumii
The main identifying feature is the bright yellow colour of the mushrooms. The cap in the young fruit-bodies is usually taller than broad, though becoming convex, often with shallow radial grooves near the margin with maturity. There is a ring left on the yellow stipe (stalk).
Other species of fungi can turn up in house plant compost.
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An 'exotic' species and not found in the wild in Britain but in greenhouse situations and in compost with potted plants.
All year round.
Not found in the wild in Britain
Not known
David Gould
Leicester Garden
11 September 2004
found in potted orchid
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- Common names
- Plantpot Dapperling
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- fungus
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- Records on NatureSpot:
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- First record:
- 11/09/2004 (Gould, David)
- Last record:
- 11/09/2004 (Gould, David)
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