CAP: 3-15cm in diameter. Variable
in yellow/brown colours. Starting convexed then becoming flattened to depressed
with striate edge when mature. Covered in dark fibrillose scales, more so at the
centre, eventually balding. STIPE: Various tones of yellow, brown darkening towards the bottom.
Cylindrical with slight tapering toward bottom.
Initially with white or yellow membranous ring.
Finely woolly. GILLS/PORES: White at first then turning yellowish brown.
Decurrent and fairly crowded. FLESH: White sometimes turning pinkish.
Strong taste. SPORES: Pale cream, ellipsoid. HABITAT: Trooping in dense groups on either
deciduous or coniferous woodland. Very
destructive.
SEASON: Very
common.
Late summer to late autumn. EDIBILITY: Edible but only when cooked. |
