28 October 2025 Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Bell shaped, expanding with age, brown, margin notched and radially lined, to about 4 cm across Gills Adnate, broad, distant, whitish then pale pink Stem Slender, equal, pale, becoming dark brown from the base upwards with age Flesh Thin, whitish Smell Mealy or rancid Taste Indistinct Season Late summer to autumn Distribution Common Habitat On stumps and fallen trunks of deciduous trees, usually oak Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth (7-11) x (5-8) µm2. Cheilocystidia clavate to sub-cylindrical to irregular, with long simple or branched finger like protuberances. Edibility Inedible Notes Rare white forms have been recorded in both Britain and Europe. The stem base turns brown with age. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 28 October 2025 Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gill edge cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 28 October 2025 Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
17 October 2007 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
30 September 2007 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |