Rooting Poisonpie

Rooting Poisonpie Hebeloma radicosum (Bull.) Ricken syn. Pholiota radicosa (Bull.) P. Kumm. (illustrated 55% life size) Cap 6–9cm across, convex; cream to pale yellowish-brown; glutinous in wet weather. Stem 50–80×10–15mm, the base tapering into a long ‘tap-root’; white and mealy above the ring, covered in brownish fibrous scales below. Flesh white; taste sweet, smell of almonds. Gills free; pallid at first, darkening slightly with age. Spores 9–10×5–6¼, almond-shaped, minutely warted. Spore print dull brown. Cheilocystidia subcylindrical to slightly clavate, thin-walled, hyaline. Habitat in broad-leaved woodland, expecially with oak or beech; autumn. Uncommon. Not edible avoid.