Hygrophorus discoideus (Brown-disc Woodwax)

Hygrophorus discoideus

Coniferous forests. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small, medium-sized. Cap 3—5 (7) cm across, flattened, with an umbo, slimy, when dry shiny, thin-fleshed, brownish-yellowish, brownish-yellow, chestnut-coloured in the central part. Gills white, later yellowish, adnate. Stem 3—6x0.5—1 cm, whitish, yellowish, dotted white near the gills, with a faint, quickly vanishing ring-like remnant. Flesh thin, whitish, without a particular smell or taste. Characteristic features: a mushroom of hilly forests, the stem with a slimy remnant of the ring. Grows singly or in small groups in spruce forests with pine. Rare, edible.