Mycena rorida, commonly known as the dripping bonnet or the slippery mycena, is a species of mushroom

Mushroom

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi that...

. It is whitish or dirty yellow in color, with a broad convex cap 5-15mm in diameter. The stalk is covered with a thick, slippery slime layer. This species can be bioluminescent, and is one of the several causative species of foxfire

Foxfire (bioluminescence)

Foxfire, also sometimes referred to as "fairy fire", is the bioluminescence created by some species of fungi present in decaying wood. The bluish green glow is attributed to luciferase, an oxidizing agent, which emits light as it reacts with luciferin...

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The current, accepted name for this species is Roridomyces roridus.http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=483233.

External links

• “Roridomyces roridus” by Robert Sasata, Healing-Mushrooms.net, March, 2008.