| CAP |
4-11cm in diameter. Dark olive brown when young soon darkening to a dingy
brown. At first felty becoming
smoother and eventually cracking to reveal coral red flesh beneath.
Convex becoming flat and contorted.
Slightly viscid when wet. |
| STIPE |
Lemon yellow becoming buff towards apex.
Reddening from middle downwards. Long
and slender with slight tapering at tip. |
| GILLS/PORES |
Lemon yellow becoming greenish/blue with age.
Bruising slightly blue. Large,
angular and wide. |
| FLESH |
Creamy yellow in cap, brown to reddish buff in stem.
When cut slowly turning blue above tubes and in base of stem. Taste
slight. |
| SPORES |
Snuff brown, subfusiform. |
| HABITAT |
Solitary or in small loose groups under broad-leaved trees with birch.
Preference for damp places. |
| SEASON |
Common. Late summer to autumn. |
| EDIBILITY |
Edible. a |
