11 October 2010 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, covered with coarse scales, brown, bruising blood red, to about 10 cm across Gills Free, crowded, pinkish, then dark brown Stem Equal, or club shaped, white, then brown, bruising blood red, ring fleshy and near the apex Flesh Firm, white, bruising blood red Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Common Habitat On soil with coniferous trees Spore Print Brown Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth (4.5-6.5) x (3-4) µm2. Basidia club shaped, 4 spored. Gill edge cystidia septate, club shaped to ovoid. Edibility Edible Notes This species could be confused with Agaricus langei, which has larger spores 
23 October 2016 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 23 October 2016 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |