23 October 2014 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, then flattened, scaly, with a velvety texture, with an irregular network pattern especially at the centre, brown, dark brown, or ochre brown, to about 9 cm across Gills Broad, crowded, free, white than pink, edges brown Stem Equal or broader at the base, scaly, concolorous with the cap Flesh Whitish Smell Faint Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat On dead deciduous wood, favouring beech and elm Spore Print Pink Microscopic Features Spores sub-spherical to ellipsoidal, smooth (6-7) x (4-5) µm2 Edibility Edible 
23 October 2014 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
11 September 2006 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
11 September 2006 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
11 September 2006 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
October 1997 Berkshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |