Winter Funnel

Clitocybe brumalis

Coniferous forests, especially pine forests. Early spring, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 2-4 (5) cm across, convex-flattened, shallowly depressed, dark yellowish-grey, greyish-yellowish, pale ochre, fading to greyish, the margins translucent, grooved. Gills white, greyish-yellowish, crowded, narrow, decurrent or broadly adnate. Stem 2-4x0.3-0.5 cm, the colour of the cap, with white hairs at the base, firmly attached to the substrate. Flesh cream-coloured, thin, with a faint mealy smell, not bitter. Characteristic features: grows in autumn and early spring, in pine and spruce forests. Appears singly or in small groups. Edible, of low value. Uncommon.