Brown roll-rim (Paxillus involutus)

Fungi


6 October 2018 October*

Not far from the pond, near small coppicewood, the ground is boggy.


From its general shape this deadly poisonous gilled fungus might be mistaken for a 'funnel' (Clitocybe genus), except that its gills are various shades of brown rather than white, and its spores are brownish where as funnels have white spores.

Brown Rollrim (also written Roll-rim or Roll Rim) is classified as a gilled member of the order Boletales, and like the boletes themselves it forms ectomycorrhizal relationships with trees - both hardwoods and conifers.





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