Lepista luscina (Grey-brown Blewit)

Lepista luscina

Forest meadows, forest edges, parks, among grasses. Autumn, rarely summer.

Fruiting bodies large. Cap 5-12 (15) cm across, irregularly flattened, matt, with watery spots near the margins, which are sometimes upturned, brownish in colour. Gills crowded, thin, not broad, subdecurrent. Stem 3-6x1—2 cm, firm, the colour of the cap. Flesh yellowish-brownish, with a faint woody smell, not bitter. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies cream, brownish, with a faint woody smell, appearing in forest meadows and at forest edges. Grows singly or in groups in open, grassy places. Edible.