Poison Pie

Hebeloma crustuliniforme

Coniferous and deciduous forests, roadsides, parks, shrublands, gardens. Autumn, summer (more rarely).

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 3-8 cm across, whitish, pale yellowish-brownish, yellowish, dry, not slimy. Gills greyish-brownish, yellowish-brown, edges white-spotted, adnate. Stem 3–7 (9)x0.5–1.5 cm, white, near the gills as if mealy or powdered. Flesh whitish, with an unpleasant smell of old radishes, slightly bitter. Characteristic features: always grows in groups, the cap is the colour of coffee with milk. Inedible; the literature states that it is poisonous. Very common. Similar to the spring Calocybe, but that one is more massive, smells of flour, has whitish, yellowish gills and grows only in spring.