Velvet Rollrim

Paxillus atrotomentosus

Rotten spruce and pine wood, decayed stumps, snags, windfalls. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies large, massive. Cap grows up to 25 cm across and larger, velvety, reddish-brown, yellowish-brown, massive, fleshy. Gills yellowish, pinkish-yellowish, crowded, broad, soft. Stem short, thick (2-6x2-4 cm), velvety, lateral, almost black. Flesh yellowish, firm, soft when old, not bitter. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies massive, appearing on rotten coniferous wood. Grows in coniferous and mixed forests, usually singly, rarely several fruiting bodies together. Inedible. Uncommon.