19 October 2007 Bedfordshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, fibrillose to scaly, carmine red to blood red, to about 5 cm across Gills Moderately crowded, purple red to blood red Stem Cylindrical, fibrillose, purple red to blood red Flesh Blood red Smell Indistinct or faintly of cedar wood Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat On soil in deciduous woods, favouring beech and oak Spore Print Rust Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal to almond shaped, finely warty (7.5-8.5) x (4.5-5) µm2 Edibility Unknown Notes The rather similar Cortinarius sanguineus occurs on soil with pine and spruce 
3 November 2007 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |