This is another representative of the mushroom that is not afraid of winter. It grows even in light frosts, and snow seems to be its natural habitat.
The fungus is gray-brown in color, sometimes dark brown or faded. It is relatively tiny, the diameter of the hat is a maximum of 2 cm. The shape of the hat is bell-shaped, conical-bell-shaped.
The edge of the hat is even, but may curl upwards with age. The surface of the hat is striped, sticky and moist, shiny. There is often a small hump at the tip of a hat.
Gray-white, and sometimes with a pink tinge to the lobes of the fungus, are attached to the stem. They are narrow but dense.
The leg is tubular and can be bent. It is also whitish, gray, pale gray and sometimes beige in color. It's empty inside. The surface of the foot is smooth at the top, but the closer to the ground it becomes slightly fluffy, hair-like.
The flesh is very thin, has an undefined taste, while the smell is unpleasant, earthy, bitter, musty. The color of the flesh is beige-gray.
The fungus grows in large clumps of a dozen or even several dozen squeezed specimens in one place.
This species is most often found in beech forests on trunks. branches of dead deciduous trees. It grows mainly from late fall to spring, most often from September to April.
Mycena tintinnabulum is an inedible mushroom but it is not poisonous. Its bitter taste and small size exclude it from the mushroom pickers' menu.
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