A small sharply umbonate fungus with a white cap found growing on soil in coniferous and deciduous woodland, often at the side of paths.
Common from Summer till Autumn.
In coniferous and broadleaf woodland.
Conical then expanded with a prominent, acute umbo, white with a yellowish tinge, smooth and silky.
Cap flesh is thin, white and unchanging, stem flesh stuffed, white, unchanging. Odour is earthy or mealy, taste not distinctive.
Adnexed, crowded, cream, becoming buff with age.
Slender, more or less equal, concolorous with the cap, silky fibrous.
Poisonous.
