Wood Woollyfoot

Gymnopus peronatus

Deciduous and mixed forests, parks. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 3-8 cm across, flattened, irregularly contorted, fibrous, as if striped, reddish-brown, greyish-brown, fading to brownish, not fleshy. Gills fairly distant, yellowish, yellowish-brown, adnate. Stem 3-8x0.3-0.7 cm, the colour of the cap, fibrous near the gills, increasingly thickening towards the base, yellowish-hairy, woolly, looking as if it had a yellow, bristly, felt-like sheath. Flesh thin, yellowish, tasteless, odourless. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies very tough, cap thin-fleshed. Grows singly or in groups, on leaves and twigs. Inedible, very common.