Help with ID please.

timhale197200 · #1 (**permalink**) 29-08-2009, 05:07 PM

Found these today, near larch, birch and beech. Gills are slightly lilac in younger specimins, turning rusty brown with age. Any help is most welcome.
Thanks.

NickCantle · #2 (**permalink**) 29-08-2009, 07:39 PM

It's a Cortinarius. C. Stillatitius is a possibility.

EDIT; Perhaps Cortinarius livido-ochraceus is more fitting. Andreas' description below fits'

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yes elatior is common. I think it is better called Cortinarius livido-ochraceus nowadays. The striate stipe apex is specific and the cap is bgetting more and more wrinkled with age. It usually is a quite robust and sometimes big species, whereas C. stillatitius is slender. This stillatitius is growing only in coniferous forests, livido-ochraceus also in decidous ones. And stillatitius smells like honey in the stipe base some time after picking - livido-ochraceus does not.

Nick

mollisia · #3 (**permalink**) 29-08-2009, 08:59 PM

Hello,

exactly!
I had posted my answer, that this should be C. livido-ochraceous already some hours ago, but it didn't semm to have found its way throught the jungles of internet ....

best regards,
Andreas