3 September 2006 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, then flattened, brown, covered with pale coarse wrinkles, margin lined, to about 5 cm across Gills Broad, crowded, free, white then pink Stem Equal, slender, silky fibrous, whitish or pale grey Flesh Whitish-grey Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Rare, though more frequent in Southern England Habitat On dead deciduous wood, favouring beech and ash Spore Print Pink Microscopic Features Spores sub-spherical to ellipsoidal, smooth (6-8) x (5-6) µm2 Edibility Inedible Notes Take care not to confuse with P. phlebophorus |