Birch Webcap

Cortinarius triumphans

Grassy, mixed and deciduous forests. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies large. Cap grows up to 12-15 cm across and larger, beautifully yellow, yellowish-brown, lion-yellow, slimy when damp, matt when dry, fleshy. Young gills whitish, cream, with a violet tinge, when old yellowish-brown, adnate. Stem 8-13x1-2 cm, whitish near the gills, lower down yellow, ochre-yellow, with zigzag ochre-yellow fibrous, hairy shaggy bands. Flesh white, thick, not bitter, with a smell of yeast.

Characteristic features: large, yellow fruiting bodies, the stem distinctly shaggy in ring-like bands; appears only under birches.

Grows most often a few fruiting bodies together, in deciduous forests. Edible. Not rare.