Young specimens on dead bracken stems and decaying leaves. 24 October 2021 Selborne, East Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Common Name Frosted Funnel Cap Convex, expanding with age, sometimes becoming funnel shaped, smooth, whitish, with a frosted appearance, +/- buff spots with age, about 2 to 9 cm across Gills Broadly adnate to somewhat decurrent, crowded, whitish to pale buff Stem Cylindrical to tapered, smooth, fibrous, whitish, base covered with white down Flesh Firm, white Smell Sweet, aromatic Taste Do not taste Season Autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat On soil in deciduous and coniferous woods, also in hedgerows, on compost heaps and on dunes Spore Print Pale pink Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal to ovoid, smooth (4-5.5) x (3-4) µm2. Basidia club shaped, 4 spored. Edibility Deadly poisonous Notes Lyophyllum connatum is not dissimilar but lacks the white down at the stem base. 
24 October 2021 Selborne, East Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 24 October 2021 Selborne, East Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |