Earthy Powdercap

Cystoderma amianthinum – Inedible

Coniferous forests, rarely deciduous forests. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 2-3 cm across, flattened, with an umbo, finely fibrous-granular, the margin with white, yellowish remnants of the partial veil, from pale to ochre-yellow, orange, fading to yellowish. Gills white, narrow, crowded, yellowish when old, adnate. Stem 4-8x0.3-0.3 cm, with an inconspicuous ring, above which it is smooth, finely dotted, below it granular and fibrous like the cap. Flesh thin, yellowish, brownish-yellow, with an unpleasant smell and taste. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies fibrous, yellowish-ochre, spores amyloid. Grows singly or in small groups among mosses. Inedible. Very common, much more common than the granular or cinnabar powdercap.