Deadly....Mushroom!

Common Name: Deadly Galerina

Easily Confused with Honey Mushroom

Width of cap: 1 -2 1/2 in

Cap: Hemispheric at first, becoming convex to flat, sometimes with slight umbo; yellow-brown to orange brown or dark brown, paler with age; surface glabrous, viscid when moist, shiny, margin smooth to ovscurely translucent striate; Flesh thin, pale brown.

Gills: Adnate to subdecurrent, but may detach from teh stalk with age, close; pale yellowish brown to orange-brown.

Stalk: Equal, smooth but with lengthwise fibrillose streaking; brown becoming darker toward teh base, with whitish mycelium at the point of attachment; partial veil leaving a thin, fibrillose or membranous ring on the upper stalk; ring white, but usually appearing brown from a deposit of spores on the upper side; sometimes the ring will deteriorate and not be readily apparent.

Spore Print: Rusty Brown

Occurrence: Scattered in small groups or clusters, occasionally solitary, on decaying wood of broad-leaved trees (often moss-covered loges and stumps), sometimes growing from buried wood and appearing terrestrial; saprobic; early spring- early winter; common

Edibility: DEADLY POISONOUS; CONTAINS DANGEROUS AMATOXINS THAT DESTROY THE LIVER.