Tiger's Eye

Coltricia perennis

Dry, sandy pine forests, forest clearings, on the ground. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies annual, medium-sized. Cap 3-8 cm across, flattened, somewhat depressed, velvety, when old smooth, zoned, ochre, greyish-brown, yellowish-brown, chestnut-coloured, fading. Tubes 0.5–3 pm long, pores roundly angular, with a greyish bloom, decurrent down the stem. Stem 2–4x0.2–0.5 cm, the colour of the cap, likewise shaggy. Flesh thin, corky, tough, yellowish.

Characteristic features: fruiting bodies yellowish-brown, cap shaped like a flat-centred goblet, zoned.

Grows singly or in small groups, especially in dry pine forests. Inedible, has medicinal properties. Fairly common. Sometimes survives for two years.