An easy fungus to identify with its stout off-centre brown stem that is covered in blackish velvet, This fungus causes a brown rot on conifer
Common and widespread from late Summer till early Winter.
Singly or in numbers in coniferous woodland at ground level or on rotting stumps and roots.
Convex when ir first emerges, but becomes excentric, or even lateral with age, and even in mature specimens, the margin remains inrolled. The uniformly cinnamon-brown surface is dry and downy.
The flesh is pale-yellow, thick and soft, often watery and slightly brownish near the base. There is a bitter taste and pleasant smell.
The gills are crowded, soft and decurrent, often forked and interconnected with colours ranging frompale-yellow to pale ochre and are easily seperated from the flesh.
Rusty-brown
The thick stem is very seldom central, cigar-brown covered in blackish velvet.
Paxillus atromentosus is a synonym for the species curently named Tapinella atromentosa for which a full entry also exists within the A to Z
Atrotomentosus means "black-felted"
