Livid Pinkgill

Entoloma sinuatum

Forests, parks. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies large, massive. Cap grows up to 15 cm across and considerably larger, of irregular shape, the margin sometimes cracked, greyish-brownish, creamy-brownish, flesh-coloured. Young gills yellowish, later ochre-pink, reddish-brown, broad, thick, adnate. Stem 5-12 (15-20)x0.5-3 (4) cm, whitish. Flesh with a pungent smell of flour and an unpleasant taste. Characteristic features: flesh smelling of flour, with a sharp taste; grows more in autumn than in summer, in forests, rarely in parks. Grows singly or in small groups, favouring clayey soil and the vicinity of birch and oak. Poisonous, uncommon, dangerous. Sometimes it occurs even in gardens.