Plants and animals of Pointfield

Cap to 60 mm diameter. Initially bun-shaped and taupe in colour with a fine fuzz. Later becoming flattened and a suede colour sometimes with a finely cracked surface. Cap dry; flesh where cap surface is cracked or grazed a pink red; a pale red rim to cap. Pores yellow, adnate, staining blue when damaged but only weakly. Stem to 60 mm long and no more than 10 mm in diameter; yellow in upper part and in juveniles, but with red spots and becoming more pervasively red lower down; no ring. Basal hyphae grey. When sectioned the flesh remains a pale yellow except at the very base where a reddish tinge. The gills fairly rapidly darken and slowly a thin blue stain develops above the hymenium.

Spore print an olive brown. Spores lenticular, smooth, 11.0-13.8 x 4.2-5.0 um, mean 12.0 x 4.6 um n = 14. Cap cuticle a palisade of partially free cells.

Growing at edge of half-moon border at outer edge of oak tree canopy and in grass near tree hydrangea. Also growing under leaf canopy of cut leaf beech.