Alexander's Funnel

Clitocybe alexandri

Coniferous forests, calcareous soils. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies large. Cap 7-15 (20) cm across, fleshy, flattened, with a blunt umbo, matt, greyish-brownish, leather-brown, slightly velvety. Gills crowded, narrow, pale cream, greyish, yellowish-brownish, subdecurrent, adnate. Stem 4—7x3-4 cm, firm, cottony inside, greyish in colour. Flesh thick, soft, greyish-yellowish, with a pleasant taste and a woody smell. Characteristic features: cap greyish yellowish-brownish, fleshy, large, semi-convex. Grows in small groups, rarely singly, under spruces in coniferous forests, most often in old spruce stands. Edible, uncommon.