A large, dull olive-brown fungus that is slimy and sticky, growing either solitary or in groups in damp places, especially with Birch.
Common from late Summer till Autumn.
Prefers damp places, especially with Birch.
Convex when young, felty or woolly, inrolled margin, later flattened then depressed, dull dark olive or umber-brown in colour, paler margin, viscid when older.
Cap flesh thick, granular, brittle, whitish, discolouring brown. Stem flesh, as in cap, becoming hollow.
Decurrent, narrow, crowded, buff, tinged sepia where bruised.
More or less equal or tapering slightly towards the base, slightly pitted, concolorous with the cap or slightlypaler, viscid, ring absent, becoming hollow.
