Late Toughshank

Gymnopus putillus

Coniferous forests, especially pine, more rarely spruce and larch forests. Autumn, until the ground freezes.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 2-3 cm across, bell-shaped when young, flattened when old, delicate, furrowed, reddish-, yellowish-brown, sticky. Gills brownish, thin, narrow, cream, yellowish-brownish, adnate. Stem 2-6x0.2-0.4 cm, of even thickness or thicker towards the base, yellowish-brownish. Flesh fairly thick, brownish, without smell and without taste. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies tough, yellowish-brown, small, cap furrowed. Grows singly or in small groups in coniferous forests, on and among fallen needles. Inedible. A common late-autumn fungus of pine forests.