Ringed Twiglet

Tubaria confragosa – Inedible

Forests, parks. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3-6 cm across, irregularly flattened, chestnut-coloured, dark reddish-brown, the margin furrowed, fibrous, fading to yellowish-brownish. Gills yellowish-brown, old ones dark brownish-brown, adnate. Stem 3-10x0.3-0.6 cm, with a conspicuous, leathery, whitish ring, the colour of the cap, white-fibrous. Flesh brownish, without any particular smell or taste. Characteristic features: cap fading to yellowish-brownish, particularly fond of dead willow, alder and birch. Grows several fruiting bodies together on rotten deciduous wood (snags, windfalls). Inedible. Rare. Classed as deserving protection.