Slimy Webcap (Cortinarius mucosus)

Cortinarius mucosus

Coniferous forests, especially dry pine forests. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized, fleshy. Cap 5-8 cm across, also grows larger, very slimy, shiny, yellowish-brown, orange, reddish-brown, the centre darker. Gills greyish, when old reddish-brown, adnate. Stem 7-12x0.5-2 (3) cm, white, slimy. Flesh yellowish, not bitter, thick. Characteristic features: stem with a white, grey, slimy coating of a cobweb-like veil. Grows most often in small groups. Edible, very common. The Blue-stemmed (Cortinarius collinitus) and Slimy Webcaps are very similar and even grow in similar places, but the stem of the Slimy Webcap is always white, without a bluish or violet coating.