byevanger's Identifications

Forest Rubies

Small, on wood.

Ruby Bonnet?

Tiny 5mm wine-red caps and thin wiry stems, growing in leaf litter under oak tree. Slight smell of bleach. White spore.

Possibly Ruby Bonnet

Tiny red striated caps about 5mm diameter at the most, on long wiry stems. Looked at first like berries. Growing among leaf litter and pine needles at side of freeway.

Tiny scarlet mushroom with long stem

Scarlet, striated cap, long red stem. White gills and white spore print. Growing deep in woodland debris.

About 1cm-2cm in size, they do not get very large

Slimy Ruby Bonnet fungus.
notes: Cruento [Latin] = bloody, ~ viscido [Italian] = slimy / slippery
(no co-ords available. Location diepwalle forest , taken June 3 2021)

Found on both decomposing trunks and in leaf litter. Correct identification?

Ruby Bonnet (Cruentomycena viscidocruenta) Ferncliffe