1 November 2021 Minley Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, smooth to fibrillose, sometimes scaly at the centre, brownish, grey brown, grey or rarely white, to about 10 cm across Gills Broad, crowded, free, white then pale pink Stem Cylindrical, narrowing towards the apex, whitish, covered with brownish longitudinal fibres Flesh Brittle, whitish Smell Radish Taste Radish or earthy Season Autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat On rotten wood and sawdust from conifers Spore Print Pink Microscopic Features Spores broadly ellipsoidal to oblong, smooth (6-9) x (4-6) µm2. Clamps present in cap cuticle hyphae but not at every septum. Pleurocystidia fusiform with 2 to 4 hooks at the apex. Cheilocystidia clavate. Notes Pobably often confused with P. cervinus. Easily distinguished in the field from P. cervinus by the substrate, the brittle stem and the presence of longitudinal fibres on the stem surface. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 1 November 2021 Minley Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Pileipellis hyphae with clamped septa in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 1 November 2021 Minley Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Pileipellis hyphae in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 1 November 2021 Minley Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gill cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 1 November 2021 Minley Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gill cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 1 November 2021 Minley Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |