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Edibility

Edibility:Excellent

Eating notes: This is one of the most sort after culinary mushrooms. Young specimens can be eaten raw in salads. They have strong mushroom flavour when cooked. Once dried, it is excellent for flavouring soups, sauces, stocks.

Preserving: Dries easily. Can be frozen.

Season

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Frequency

Frequent

Description

Cap: 8-20cm, convex, brown

Stem: Swollen towards the base. Cream mottled or streaked with pale brown. The white network at the top of the stem is distinctive.

Tubes: Initially white/cream becoming yellow/grey. Slightly gills join the stem to a part depth of the gill. The gills are seen to curve up towards the cap, but do join the stem." class="glossary_link" href="/mushrooms/glossary#adnexed">adnexed or gills join the stem to the full depth of the gill. Neither curving up to the cap or running down the stem." class="glossary_link" href="/mushrooms/glossary#adnate">adnate

Pores: White/cream in young specimens turns more yellow as they age.

Spores: Olive brown

Flesh: White, unchanging when cut.

Habitat: Mixed woodland

Frequency: Frequent