Plants and animals of Pointfield

Cap large, (60 mm diameter); smooth and dry; concave with a chocolate brown centre and pale strongly furrowed rim with the furrows separating radially aligned rows of small brown ‘nodes’ in outer 20%. Gills free; creamy-white colour developing a red edge towards the rim; dense and composed entirely of primaries. Stalk 37 x 10 mm; off-white, fibrillose; solid; no ring; with small red spots and blotches at base. Smell sweet not unpleasant; taste mild not at all acrid; cap peeling two-thirds.

Spore print slightly creamy white. Spores subcircular and with isolated warts; 7.2-9.2 x 5.9-7.0 m, mean = 8.0 x 6.4um, N = 16: Q = 1.2. Warts less than 1 m in length and stout. Cheilocystidia present, fusiform with somewhat pinched apical extension.

Growing in grass near damson trees and within canopy of a large silver birch.