5 November 2025 Near Eyeworth Pond, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Bell shaped, expanding with age, sometimes with a depression or a bump at the centre, very slimy, centre dark brown, margin pale brown to whitish, about 20 to 65 mm across Gills Decurrent, distant, white Stem Cylindrical, dry and scaly at the apex, slimy below, whitish to pale brown Flesh White Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Late summer to early winter Distribution Rarely recorded Habitat In woods with beech and oak Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth (8.5-12) x (5.5-7.5) µm2 Edibility Unknown Notes The two 2015 New Forest collections are from the same site. The 2025 collection was found about one mile away. It was DNA sequenced by Eric Janke in association with the BMS confirming the identification. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 5 November 2025 Near Eyeworth Pond, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
16 November 2023 Preston Oak HIlls near Bentworth, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 16 November 2023 Preston Oak HIlls near Bentworth, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
With beech and oak. 26 September 2015 Near Eyeworth Pond, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
With beech and oak. 10 October 2015 Near Eyeworth Pond, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
26 September 2015 Near Eyeworth Pond, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 26 September 2015 Near Eyeworth Pond, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |