Rosy Pinkgill

Entoloma roseum – Inedible

Deciduous forests, black-alder woods. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 1-3 (4) cm across, convex-flattened, with or without an umbo, faintly scaly, brownish-pink, brick-red, copper-coloured. Young gills white, soon becoming brownish-pink, adnate. Stem 2-3x0.2-0.3 cm, of even thickness, brownish-pink, white-dotted near the gills, fragile. Flesh white, later pink, thin, not bitter. Characteristic features: brownish-pink fruiting bodies (cap, gills and stem). Grows singly, favouring the vicinity of black alder and willow. Very rare. Inedible. Only one site is known – in Žemaitija National Park.