Trooping Funnel / Monk's Head

Clitocybe geotropa

Deciduous and mixed forests, calcareous, grassy places. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies very large. Cap 10-30 cm across, broadly depressed, when young matt, when old shiny, brownish, brownish-yellowish. Gills greyish-cream, long decurrent. Stem 8-15x2-4 cm, the colour of the cap. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies very large, flesh not bitter, aromatic, with a faint smell of almonds. Grows in groups in sunlit, grassy places of deciduous and mixed forests and parks, forming "fairy rings". Edible. Uncommon.