Girdled Webcap

Cortinarius trivialis – Inedible

Deciduous, more rarely coniferous forests. From spring to late autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 5-10 cm across, conical, later flattened with a blunt umbo, very slimy, shiny, pale ochre, straw-coloured, yellowish-reddish-brown, with a greenish tinge, the margin paler, with remnants of a white slimy veil. Gills greyish-violet, old ones reddish-brown. Stem 5–10x1-2 cm, white, later yellowish-brownish, sheathed in a slimy white veil which turns brown from fallen spores and cracks, mottling the stem with snake-skin zigzags. Flesh cream, white, thin, without any particular smell or taste. Characteristic features: stem roughly mottled with zigzags. Grows singly or in small groups, favouring the vicinity of birch, oak and aspen. Inedible, uncommon.