17 October 2007 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Bell shaped, expanding with age, brown, margin notched and radially lined, to about 4 cm across Gills Adnate, broad, distant, whitish then pale pink Stem Slender, equal, pale, becoming dark brown from the base upwards with age Flesh Thin, whitish Smell Mealy or rancid Taste Indistinct Season Late summer to autumn Distribution Common Habitat On stumps and fallen trunks of deciduous trees, usually oak Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth (8-10) x (6-7) µm2 Edibility Inedible 
30 September 2007 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |