CAP: 4-12cm in diameter.
Lovely orange-yellow that is very viscid when wet and still retains a shiny appearance when dry. Starting roundish becoming flatter with an occasional umbo. STIPE: Yellow with a covering of orange scales. Equal and has a lighter area were the ring has fallen away. Above the ring the stem lacks any orange scales. GILLS/PORES: The pores are a beautiful lemon yellow becoming more cinnamon and bruising darker when pressed. The pores are protected by woolly white veil when young. FLESH: Pale yellow in cap darker in the stem. Firm at first becoming very soft. Odour faintly of Geraniums. SPORES: Ochre, subfusiform to ellipsoid. HABITAT: On the ground strictly symbiotic with Larch. SEASON:Common. Late
summer to autumn. EDIBILITY: Edible if the slimy cuticle is removed. |
