Rooting Poisonpie

Hebeloma radicosum

On roots of oak, lime, ash, hazel or birch. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium to large. Cap 5-10 (12) cm across, raised-flattened when mature, slimy, glossy when dry, fleshy, fibrous, scaly, ochre, reddish-brown, fading to yellowish, brownish. Gills whitish, cream, old ones reddish-brown, notched. Stem 4–12 (15–20)x1–3 cm, spindle-shaped, tapering like a root, with a conspicuous membranous ring, below the ring the stem is yellow-scaly, firm, tough. Flesh whitish, thick, smelling of almonds, slightly bitter-tasting. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies yellowish-brown, scaly, stem tapering like a root, with a long rhizoid-like extension. Grows mostly in deciduous, more rarely mixed forests. Inedible. Rare.