Clitopilus prunulus The Miller
At the time of writing the forest floor is covered with a wide variety of fungus, it is almost impossible to leave the track without treading on one or more fruit bodies. The Miller is currently to be found within the forest of Eversley.
Occuring with grass on soil, frequently in small trooping goups & close to trees. The cap is up to 90mm across, white to pale grey, convex with an inrolled margin, then flattened and wavy, dry with a powdery appearance, also descrbed as having the apperance of chamois leather.
The stem is concolorous with the cap, + eccentric, cylindrical, widening towards the cap and covered in fine soft hairs which are denser at the base. The gills start life white but slowly become a pinkish buff, are crowded & decurrent.
The spore print is pink tending to brown. The spores are ellipsoid to a stretched almond-shape with longitudinal ribs that require greater magnification than shown above.
The flesh is white & firm.
This species has been found on Heath
Warren & Bramshill Plantation.