10 October 2025 Minley Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Convex, expanding with age, sometimes with a central depression, smooth, margin sometimes grooved, greyish green to yellowish green, often with rust brown spots, to about 12 cm across Gills Fairly crowded, cream to pale yellow Stem Cylindrical, white, often with rusty spots at the base Flesh White, brittle Smell Indistinct Taste Mild Season Autumn Distribution Common Habitat On soil with birch Spore Print Cream Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, warty with an incomplete connecting network (6-10) x (5-7) µm2 Edibility Although considered by some to be edible, there are reports of this species causing stomach ache, thus it should be treated as poisonous and avoided. Notes The cap cuticle peels readily. The cap surface turns orange on exposure to KOH. The flesh and stem surface turn slowly pink on exposure to iron salts. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 10 October 2025 Minley Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores on a glass slide. 10 October 2025 Minley Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
4 October 2022 Minley Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |