| CAP |
8-20cm in diameter.
Bright reddish orange and covered with white warty remnants of
the universal veil. Starting
spherical in shape gradually becoming more flattened with age,
eventually bowl shaped. Colour
tends to fade with rain and warts tend to be washed off. |
| STIPE |
White, evenly thick with bulbous base,
which is covered in shaggy remains of volval bag.
Annulus is comb-like and occasionally with yellowish tint. |
| GILLS/PORES |
Gills are white, crowded and free. |
| FLESH |
White with pleasant taste, may be tinged
yellow-red beneath cap cuticle. |
| SPORES |
White, broadly ovate. |
| HABITAT |
Preference
for growing beneath birch and spruce on acid soils. |
| SEASON |
Common.
Late
summer to autumn. |
| EDIBILITY |
Poisonous.
rrr |
