A large, grey, stout funnel-cap of conifer and broadleaf woodland in Europe and North America. It often forms large rings late in autumn. Some guides list it as edible, but it upsets the stomach of many people even in small portions, so it is treated here as toxic. It contains nebularine, which Swedish chemists isolated from it in 1953. Its look-alikes include the poisonous Entoloma sinuatum.
Treated as toxic. It is listed as edible in some guides, but even a small portion can cause gastrointestinal upset in some people (Miller & Miller, via Wikipedia), and Phillips says it upsets many people (via Galloway Wild Foods). Foragers who eat it boil it and discard the water first. It contains nebularine. Confusable with the poisonous Entoloma sinuatum (pink spore print, floury smell).
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Habitat
On leaf or needle litter or rich soil under almost any tree, in conifer and broadleaf woodland, and sometimes in grass away from trees. Common and gregarious, often in large rings (Wikipedia; Galloway Wild Foods). Fruits in mid to late autumn in Britain, from about October to December (Wikipedia; Galloway Wild Foods).
Distribution
Europe and North America (Wikipedia).
Characteristics
Cap: 5-25 cm, convex with an incurved margin, becoming flat to depressed. Greyish to light brownish grey, often with a whitish bloom when young, and radially fibrillose. Gills: pale, adnate to short-decurrent, close, often forked. Stem: 5-10 cm x 2-4 cm, stout, swollen toward the base, hollow with age, breaks easily, usually paler than the cap. Flesh: white, very thick. Odour: often strong; described as farinaceous to spicy, or rancid. Spore print: light yellowish. Spores: elliptical (Wikipedia, citing Trudell & Ammirati, Davis et al., Phillips and Audubon). Older specimens can host the parasitic Volvariella surrecta (Wikipedia).
