18 October 2010 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, surface fibrous, dark cinnabar to brownish red, hygrophanous, paler orange red to yellowish red when dry, to about 6 cm across Gills Crowded, cinnabar red to brown red, edges paler Stem Cylindrical, slightly expanded at the base, surface fibrous, concolorous with the cap, veil bright red to orange red, basal mycelium felty, bright red Flesh Pale brownish red, deep reddish purple when exposed to KOH solution. Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat On soil in deciduous woods, favouring beech Spore Print Rusty brown Microscopic Features Spores almond shaped, rough-warty, strongly dextrinoid (8-10) x (4.5-5.5) µm2 Edibility Inedible 
28 September 2008 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
28 September 2008 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |