A small agaric found solitary or in scattered groups with broadleaf tree, preferably with Birch.
Common from Summer till Autumn.
With broadleaf trees, especially Birch.
Flatly convex, matt, rust-brown with orange or ochraceous tinges, more pallid with age, central papilla, striate or sulcate at the margin.
Cap flesh whitish or buff, granular, brittle, thin. Stem flesh buff or whitish, stuffed, becoming hollow.
Adnate or slightly decurrent, narrow, fairly crowded, ochraceous-buff becoming cinnamon with age.
Tapering slightly towards apex, concolorous with cap, becoming brick-red towards the base, ring absent, becoming hollow.
Milk gradually turns yellow on a handkerchief. Not the only species that does this but it is the most common. Ref: Ken Burgess
