A medium sized fungus that exudes copious amounts of milk, found growing in soil either solitary or in scattered groups under Beech.
Infrequent.
In deciduous woodland with Beech from Summer till Autumn.
Olive-brown to olive-green,, zoned, convex and downy when young, later flat or depressed with an irregular margin, smooth when dry, slimy when moist.
Cap flesh is firm and brittle, whitish with a brown tinge. Stem flesh is whitish and stuffed.
Adnate or slightly decurrent, close, cream coloured, discolouring olivaceous or reddish-brown
Pale, ring absent, smooth, tapering downwards, concolorous with the cap.
Inedible.
