Veiled Poisonpie - Hebeloma mesophaeum
The cap is brownish and usually 5 cm or less. It is often two coloured being reddish brown near the centre and paler near the margins. The cap is sometimes viscid.
Grows on the ground in woodland and woodland edge it is often associated with conifers and with Birch.
Autumn.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Ratby garden
06 November 2011
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
David Nicholls
Ratby garden
06 November 2011
David Nicholls
Ratby garden
06 November 2011
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
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Species profile
- Common names
- Veiled Poisonpie
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Cortinariaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 02/11/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 11/11/2012 (Nicholls, David)
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