- Cap convex, brown, velvety when young, later smooth.
- Gills decurrent, yellowish-white, brown-spotted after touching and in damaged areas.
- Stem short, often offset to one side, brown and velvety.
- Flesh yellowish-white, with mild to bitter taste and neutral to sour smell.
Paxilloid agarics
Velvet Rollrim
Tapinella atrotomentosa
LC
Least concern
Poisonous
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows on stumps and dead roots of pine in coniferous forest throughout the Nordic region.
Notes
Should be regarded as suspected poisonous and unsuitable for eating. Can be used for dyeing wool yarn, then giving olive-green to green colours.