An occasional species that is found in deciduous woodland, commonly with Beech or Birch.
Occasional during Autumn.
Deciduous woodland usually with Birch and Beech.
Yellow, with a brighter centre to cap, convex the expanded with age to slightly umbonate, extremely viscid.
Yellowish in the cap and whitish in the stem and tinged violaceous throughout, especially in young specimens. Tastes mild but often with a bitter aftertaste.
Free or adnate, violaceous, turning yellow then clay or cinnamon coloured.
Spore print - rust.
White, pale lilac apex, tinged yellow by the slimy veil up to the cortinal zone, slightly swollen at the base and covered in white down.
