This is an often massive fungi that has a creamish white cap covered in thick fragments of veil, very often with veil fragments hanging off the cap edge. The gills are cowded, pale cream and the stout stem has a thick ring near the top. The stem is bulbous at the base with rings or ridges of veil on the upper portion. The fungus may smell of old ham.
Agricybe praecox is a variable species that is commonly found in grassland and is difficult to distinguish from others of the same genus. The cap can reach up to 7cm in diameter and can be a pale tan to off white in colour. The stem is a creamy-white colour and there is a membranous ring.
Typically in clusters with willow, this fungus is uncommon in the U.K. and is found mainly in the south.
This poisonous fungus is pale cream to buff coloured with the cap having a central dome and the surface is sticky when wet. The gills are pale-brown and exude tiny drops of clear liquid in damp weather. These drops turn dark brown and trap mature spores. It is found in small troops amongst grass in mixed woodland and parkland.
No other white Milkcap has the combination of extremely crowded gills and white latex, which dries to olive-green.
A whitish, small bracket like fungus that grows on the branches of deciduous trees.
This fungus is found in troops, rings or clusters in broadleaf and conifer woodland, especially with Spruce, Beech, Oak and Birch.