Conifer Webcap

– Cap bell-shaped to convex, smooth, often with a small pointed umbo, redbrown, turning yellow-brown when dry.
– Cap margin often with yellow remnants of the veil.
– Gills yellow-brown to rust-brown, quite widely spaced.
– Stem long, slender, yellow-brown to redbrown with yellow veil bands.

Grows in mossy spruce forests and pine forests throughout northern Europe.

The kidney-damaging toxin orellanin, found in some other species of the same subgenus, has not been detected in C. gentilis, but it has caused kidney damage in rats and should therefore be considered poisonous for humans as well.