Stinking Dapperling - Lepiota cristata
A small fungus (cap 1-5 cm), with pinkish to brownish scales on the cap and a smooth stem with fragile ring. The free, crowded gills are white or cream, darkening with age. It usually has a pungent, rubbery, unpleasant smell.
There are similar dapperlings, but most do not have the unpleasant smell
smell 
Photograph from top down and in side view, showing ring, and you must note the smell and habitat.
Grows on the ground near to trees, and often in woodland.
July to October.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Lostash
Leicester Botanical Gardens
17 October 2012
Graham Calow
Stoney Stanton, land off Sapcote Road
29 September 2022
Graham Calow
Stoney Stanton, land off Sapcote Road
29 September 2022
Lostash
Swithland Woods
18 September 2016
Melinda Bell
New Lount Nature Reserve
20 October 2019
cap approx 5cm diameter
Melinda Bell
New Lount Nature Reserve
20 October 2019
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Species profile
- Common names
- Stinking Parasol, Stinking Dapperling
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Agaricaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 04/10/2019 (Lewis, Steven)
- Last record:
- 13/11/2025 (Hollingworth, Jane)
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