Scalloped Roundhead

Stropharia albocrenulata

Base of living aspens, rarely stumps, snags. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium to large. Cap 3-10 cm across, growing even larger, surface with a thick layer of slime, yellowish-brown scaly, violet-brown, chestnut-coloured when old. Gills violet-brown, chocolate-coloured, the edges of young ones with white sticky droplets. Stem 3-13x0.3-4 cm, greyish, covered with brown fibrils and small scales, with a ring. Flesh yellowish, thick, firm, bitter-tasting. Characteristic features: grows only at the base of aspen, rarely on other trees; gill edges of young fungi with white sticky droplets, old ones white-spotted. Grows singly or 2-7 fruiting bodies together. Not rare in Lithuania, very rare in many countries. Inedible. A parasite, in places dangerous to aspen stands.