Identified by David Harries. 3 October 2015 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, often with a central depression, colour variable, yellowish brown, dark grey brown, sepia or cream, hygrophanous, drying paler, radially lined, to about 5 cm across Gills Adnate, or emarginate, broad, distant, pale becoming pink with age Stem Cylindrical or tapered, smooth to fibrillose, greyish to grey brown Flesh Firm, colour as per surface Smell Usually nitrous, but sometimes indistinct Taste Indistinct, or unpleasant, petroleum-like Season Autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat In deciduous woods favouring willow and alder Spore Print Pink Microscopic Features Spores angular, 5 to 6 sides (8-10) x (7-8) µm2. Basidia club shaped, 4 spored, clamped. Gill cystidia absent. Pileipellis composed of cyclindrical hyphae. Clamps present in all tissues. Edibility Unknown Notes 'politum' means polished 
Identified by David Harries. 3 October 2015 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |