– Cap white to cream-coloured, slimy.
– Gills white, decurrent.
– Stem white, floccose at the top.
– Flesh with a sour and unpleasant so-called "cossus odour", meaning that it smells like the larva of the goat moth (Cossus cossus).
Woodwaxes
Goat Moth Woodwax
Hygrophorus cossus
LC
Least concern
Inedible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with oak, probably favoured by calcareous soil.
Similar species
Similar to several other white Hygrophorus-species, but usually has somewhat more robust fruitbodies that remain entirely white for a long time without darkening, and the stem base lacks a colour reaction in contact with potassium hydroxide (KOH).
