– Cap blue-gray to black-blue, innately fibrillose.
– Gills widely spaced, white to gray, adnexed to slightly decurrent.
– Stem gray, with longitudinal fibrils.
Woodwaxes
Streaked Woodwax
Hygrophorus atramentosus
EN
Endangered
Inedible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with spruce on calcareous soil in old growth spruce forests, rare. Indicates forests with high conservation values and often grows in old forests that have never been logged.
Similar species
Hygrophorus camarophyllus is similar, but it is more brown in color and often lighter at the top of the stem near the gills.
