Wood Pinkgill

Entoloma rhodopolium – Poisonous

Grassy deciduous and mixed forests. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 5-8 (10-12) cm across, not fleshy, grey, ochre-greyish-brownish, fragile. Gills pink, reddish-brown, adnate. Stem 7-12x0.5-1.5 cm, white, fragile. Flesh whitish, thin, not bitter, with a faint smell of flour. Characteristic features: rather fragile fruiting bodies, gills reddish-brown, grows in damp, grassy places, in nettle beds. Grows singly, more often in groups, very widespread in our forests, woodlands and bogs. Inedible, mildly poisonous.