Mycena pura
This beautiful Mycena is found under conifers in needle litter. Its colors and cap shape and margin can be variable. This may be because there could be several phylogeneticically related species going under one name. The cap’s disc color can be more purple, pinkish-brown, yellowish to even pure white, often depending on its age. The shape can resemble a bell, be rounded, flat or even upturned and wavy. Sometimes the paler margin is striate. The close to somewhat distant gills are generally whitish, but may exhibit pinkish or lilac tints. The stem is hollow, glabrous and tinged with the color of the cap. This Mycena has a radish odor and taste. It is a saprotrophic fungus that breaks down forest debris. Mycena pura is in the Mycenaceae family of the Agaricales order.
Mycena pura