Weeping Slimecap (Limacella guttata)

Limacella guttata

Damp, grassy deciduous and mixed forests, raised bogs, scrub. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies large. Cap 5—12 cm across, flattened, with an umbo, slimy, silky in dry weather, cream, flesh-coloured. Gills brownish, crowded, free. Stem 7—13x1—3 cm, white, with a white ring, without a volva. Flesh white, soft, with a mealy smell, not bitter. Characteristic features: spores small, non-amyloid. Grows a few fruiting bodies together, in groups, in grassy, damp deciduous and coniferous forests. Uncommon. Edible, of low value. The Slimy Slimecap (L. illinita) is very similar, but its fruiting bodies are smaller and very slimy.