Weeping Widow - Lacrymaria lacrymabunda
It has a hairy fibrillose cap with a bearded edge. The cap is yellow-brown in colour, with dark marbled gills with white fringed margins that exude droplets stained black with the spores. The stem is yellow brown with a ring zone that is often blackened by spores; scaly or hariry below the ring.
Photograph from top down, in side view and from underneath to show gills and full length of stipe. Note habitat and substrate.
Grasslands etc.
Most common in late summer and autumn.
Widespread and common (Kibby, Vol.3, 2021)
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Gilroes Cemetery
10 October 2012
David Nicholls
Gilroes Cemetery
10 October 2012
black 'tears'
Graham Calow
Sapcote, land behind Northfield Road
10 October 2023
Craig Mabbett
Newton Harcourt Canal
26 October 2025
Groby John
Mountsorrel Heritage Centre
16 October 2025
Graham Calow
Sapcote, land behind Northfield Road
10 October 2023
David Nicholls
Gilroes Cemetery
10 October 2012
Melinda Bell
Swithland Wood
25 September 2025
Jane Hollingworth
Tom Long's Meadow
30 September 2025
sue
Barwell, Kirkby Lane Cemetery
11 November 2024
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Species profile
- Common names
- Weeping Widow
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Psathyrellaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 31
- First record:
- 10/10/2012 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 18/11/2025 (Hollingworth, Jane)
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