Bleeding Mycena

This mushroom exudes a purplish juice that stains your fingers. Cap: 1-4 cm across; oval, becoming broadly conic, broadly bell-shaped, or nearly convex; the margin often with a tiny sterile portion, becoming tattered with age; dry and dusted with fine powder when young, becoming bald and tacky; sometimes shallowly lined or grooved; dark brownish red to reddish brown at the center, lighter towards the margin; often fading to grayish pink or nearly whitish.

Gills: Narrowly attached to the stem; close or nearly distant; whitish, becoming grayish to purplish; often stained reddish brown; edges colored like the faces.

Stem: 4-8 cm long; 1-2 mm thick; equal; hollow; smooth or with pale reddish hairs; brownish red to reddish brown or nearly purple; exuding a purplish red juice when crushed or broken.

Flesh: Insubstantial; pallid or colored like the cap; exuding a purplish red juice when crushed or cut.

Odor and Taste: Odor not distinctive; taste mild or slightly bitter.

Spore Print: White.