26 July 2009 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, silky and fibrous, often covered in veil remnants, white, cream, or straw, to about 20 cm across Gills Free, crowded, broad, white, then pink Stem Tapered upwards, smooth, whitish, emerging from a fleshy sack, or volva Flesh Firm, fibrous, white, cream or pale yellow Smell Pleasant Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Rare Habitat On dead deciduous wood, and wounds and knot holes in living trees, favouring Elm and Beech Spore Print Pink Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth (8-10) x (5-6) µm2 Edibility Edible, excellent, but best left due to rarity 
August 2000 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |