CAP: 4-14cm in diameter. Starting campanulate becoming
convex to flattened but retaining slight umbo. The surface colour
varies from dark brown to umber with greyish overtones and has a felty
centre that radiates in fine fibrils towards the sometimes wrinkled
margin. Viscid when wet. STIPE: White with fine dark brown fibrils giving a streaked
effect. Cylindrical in shape with the base slightly swollen. GILLS/PORES: The gills are remote and very crowded. They are
white at first gradually becoming salmon pink. FLESH: White and soft with pleasant aroma. SPORES: Pink, broadly ellipsoid. HABITAT: On dead logs, stumps, fallen branches etc. in deciduous
woodland. SEASON: Common. Spring to early autumn. EDIBILITY: Edible. |