Bitter Poison Pie
Description
Cap convex to plane, Ø 6-12 cm, matt, ochreous-brown or loam-coloured to flesh-coloured brown, sometimes with paler margin.
Gills pale flesh-coloured, later ochre to cafè-au-lait, the cutting without droplets.
Stem 4-6 x 1 cm, whitish, with coarse flakes or fibrous scales. Flesh whitish.
Smell of radish. Taste bitter.
Spore-print colour cinnamon-brown.
Occurrence
Especially with beeches and hornbeams in broad-leaved or coniferous woods and avenues on calcareous clay and loamy soil.
Forming ectomycorrhiza.