Stinking Pinkgill

Entoloma nidorosum – Inedible

Damp, grassy forests, parks. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 5-9 cm across, irregularly wavy-flattened or slightly depressed, grey, greyish-brownish, with a yellowish-greenish tinge. Young gills whitish, soon becoming pink, reddish-brown, distant, adnate. Stem 5-9x0.5-1 cm, fragile, greyish, greyish-brownish. Flesh greyish, thin, fragile, not bitter, with a strong smell of ammonia and stale flour. Characteristic features: greyish-brownish fruiting bodies, similar to the odourless pinkgill (Entoloma inodorum), but stinking. Grows in the same places as the odourless pinkgill. Inedible. Common.