A small to medium fungus commonly found in parks and gardens growing on wood chips and sawdust.
Common from Summer to Autumn.
Becoming common in parks and gardens growing in sawdust and wood chips.
Convex, orange-red, viscid when moist, smooth and slightly shiny when dry, occasionally with white velar remains at the cap edge.
Cap flesh is firm, pale buff, stem flesh stuffed or full.
Adnate, close, white in young specimens, clay with an olivaceous tinge when mature.
Pale ochre, tingesimilar to cap colour at the base, which is slightly thickened. The ring is yellowish, fragile and superior.