Plants and animals of Pointfield

Cap to 60 mm diameter. Domed and olive brown to brown in colour with a coarsely cracked surface revealing red-stained flesh beneath. Pores adnexed; yellow, staining blue-black when bruised. Stem to 60 mm long and thick; no ring; red-stained on lower part. Flesh of stem blue-staining towards the outside when cut with a red-staining core; Cap flesh staining blue above gills when cut. Spore print dark brown. Spores elongate, smooth, with slight but distinct indentation towards one end; 10.2-11.8 x 4.0-5.2 um (mean = 11.0 x 4.6 um N = 17); Qav = 2.37.

Growing under cut-leaf beech tree.