I recently received an email from a volunteer at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh who required some help with fungi identifications. He also sent me a photograph of a fungus found in a Research Glasshouse that was growing in a plant pot next to an Amorphophallus paeoniifolius.
Plantpot Dapperling or Flowerpot Parasol is a tropical fungus that can be found in heated glasshouses or greenhouses all year round. It is uncommon and its characteristics are:
Cap up to 5 cm across, firstly ovate then bell-shaped and at maturity flat with an umbo. Its colour can vary from bright yellow to greenish yellow/pale yellow and when dry more brown. The texture is dry/mealy/minutely scaly. In some mature examples the margin edge can be striate.
The gills are free, yellow and crowded. The stem is slender but can have a slightly bulbous base. A small ring may be seen high up on the stem and also there may be remnants of veil. Although the ring can disappear. It should not be eaten.
With kind regards and thanks to Robert Jones and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for allowing me to use this photograph.
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