Spindle Shank
(Spool Foot)
Description
Cap vaulted to irregularly curved flat, sometimes with an bump, Ø 4-8 cm, smooth, matt, dark red brown when young, later on fading to flesh-coloured brown with rusty red patches and with a lighter sharp rim.
Gills whitish to reddish brown, sometimes with rusty red spots.
Stem 6-12 x 1-2 cm, smooth, furrowed curved, deeply spindle-shaped rooting, elastic, tough, whitish to dark red brown. Flesh whitish, tough. Smell absent.
Occurrence
In bundles on roots of living trees, mainly Oak (Beech, Maple, Birch, Hazel) in deciduous forests on moderately dry to humid sand, loam or clay.
Parasitic.