Hygrophorus pustulatus (Pers. ex Fr.) Fr. Cap 2-5cm across, convex with a depressed center and an inrolled margin that becomes arched in maturity; gray-brown with a darker disc; sticky, glutinous when wet, with dark granular scales, especially in the center. Gills decurrent, bluntly adnate, close to subdistant, narrow; white. Stem 40-80 x 3-8mm, solid or stuffed at the top, slightly enlarged below; whitish flushed with cap color; lower section sticky from remnants of gelatinous universal veil, elsewhere dry with some dark gray pits. Flesh soft, quite thin; white. Odor not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores ellipsoid to ovoid, smooth, 7.5-9.5 x 4.5-5.5ì. Deposit white. Habitat in groups under fir and redwood. Found Europe and in central and western North America and in California. Season August-December. Edible. |