Veiled Poisonpie

Hebeloma mesophaeum

Mixed and coniferous forests, shrublands, gardens. Autumn, summer (more rarely).

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3-5 cm across, rarely larger, dirty greyish-brown, the central part chocolate, darker, the margin paler, greyish-cream, fibrous, scaly. Gills greyish-brown, adnate. Stem 3-7 cm long, sometimes longer, up to 1 cm thick, brownish. Flesh brownish, thin, bitter-tasting. Characteristic features: a sharp, unpleasant aroma (of old radishes, gas). Grows in groups, favouring forest edges and grassy roadsides overgrown with shrubs. Inedible. Similar are grey, greyish-brown knights (the grey, greyish-brown and mottled knights), but they do not have such an unpleasant smell, and their gills are white, greyish, never brown.