Fringed Mottle Gill
Description
Cap egg-shaped to bell-shaped with papilla, Ø 1-4 cm, smooth, matt, light to dark brown-grey when damp; drying whitish greyish, margin with velar remnants forming fine white teeth.
Gills grey to black.
Stem 6-14 cm x 1-3 mm, white pruinose, light grey-brown to dark brown, with white-felted base. Flesh cream. Taste mild. Smell faint, mushroom-like.
Poisonous.
Occurrence
Common on old cow, horse and sheep dung in grassland, parks, roadsides, and along bridle paths. Summer to autumn.
Saprophyte.