| 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. a |
