Olive Wax Cap / Olive Woodwax

Hygrophorus olivaceoalbus

Coniferous forests, especially pine forests. Autumn, not afraid of frosts.

Fruiting bodies small, medium-sized. Cap 3-6 cm across, slimy, shiny, greyish-violet-brown, with a black tinge. Gills whitish, with a bluish tinge, adnate. Stem 3-10 (12)x0.5-1.5 cm in size, slimy, white, banded. Flesh white, not bitter, without a particular smell. Characteristic features: slimy fruiting bodies, the stem more than twice as long as the cap diameter. Spores large. Grows in coniferous forests among mosses and grasses, a dozen or more, one near another. Likes calcareous soil and the company of spruce. Very common, edible. Eaten fresh, together with other mushrooms.