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Commonly known as the lilac bonnet. Moss spruce forest.

Fungus on the tree lag. Summer background.

A strange purple colored, funnel shaped mushroom, growing in the undergrowth of the Tsitsicamma Forest of South Africa.

Mushrooms Growing in the Forest in Autumn

The mycena mushroom pink in close-up. A mushroom growing in the forest among the fallen leaves.

close-up of orange grisette mushroom in the grass

$Laccaria amethystea (Bull. ex Mérat) Murr. syn. L. laccata var. amethystina ([Huds.] Cke.) Rea Violetter Lacktrichterling Clitocybe laqué améthyste Amethyst deceiver. Cap 1–4.5cm across, convex to flattened or centrally depressed, deep purplish-lilac when moist drying pale lilac-buff, surface slightly scurfy at centre especially with age. Stem 40–100 x 5–10mm, concolorous with stem, covered in whitish fibres below but mealy near the apex, base covered in lilac down, passing into the lilac mycelium. Flesh thin, tinged lilac, stem becoming hollow. Taste and smell not distinctive. Gills often distant, concolorous with cap, becoming powdered white. Spore print white. Spores globose, spiny, 9–11um in diameter. Habitat coniferous or deciduous woods, often with beech. Season late summer to early winter. Very common. Edible. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) Distribution, common in Europe uncommon in north America apparently restricted almost entirely to eastern north America. Season August-September. Edible (source R. Phillips).\n\nThis edible Species ins quite common in Beech Forests/Lanes in the Netherlands.$