Surrey 22 October 2015. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, sometimes with a central depression, smooth, margin sometimes grooved, lilac to wine red, to about 5 cm across Gills Fairly distant, broad, white then pale cream Stem Cylindrical to slightly club shaped, whitish to yellow, often greying with age Flesh Brittle, white Smell Indistinct Taste Hot Season Late summer to autumn Distribution Rarely recorded Habitat With alder Spore Print Pale yellow Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, warty with an incomplete connecting network (7.5-10.5) x (6-8) µm2 Edibility Inedible 
Surrey 22 October 2015. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. Surrey 22 October 2015. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |