1 October 2016 New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, sometimes plano-convex, covered with brick red scales on a pale yellow background, to about 6 cm across Gills Crowded, yellowish when young, then ocraceous brown Stem Cylindrical, covered with brick red scales on a pale yellow background, often hollow Flesh Whitish, becoming saffron-yellow on cutting Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Frequent Habitat On soil in deciduous woods with beech, oak and birch Spore Print Rust Microscopic Features Spores sub-globose, densely warty (6-8) x (5.5-6.5) µm2 Edibility Poisonous 
October 2004 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
October 1998 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
October 2004 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |