Arched Woodwax

Hygrophorus camarophyllus

Damp, grassy, old pine forests. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies large. Cap grows up to 10 cm across and larger, fleshy, surface matt, fibrous, greyish-brown, blackish greyish-brown. Gills brownish, thick, grey, greyish-cream, slightly decurrent. Stem up to 10-12 cm long and 2-2.5 cm thick, slightly paler than the cap. Flesh white, thick, soft, without a particular smell, not bitter. Characteristic features: the largest mushroom of the woodwax genus. Grows among mosses in old-growth forests, sometimes in large groups (in the Viešvilė Reserve in 2000 two sites were found where 23 and 33 fruiting bodies grew). Edible. Protected.