English: Plums and Custard; Red-haired agaric.
German: Purperpilz holzritterling.
Region: Europe, Ireland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, North-West Russia, North America; introduced in Australia, Costa Rica.
Habitat: growing on tree stumps and logs, of spruce, in coniferous woodlands.
Use: edible, but unpalatable, better after boiling, taste of rotting wood.
MycologyType: saprotrophic; fruiting late summer and autumn.
Cap: plum-red; scaled; convex; 3 to 12 cm wide; flesh is cream-coloured; yellow under the purplish scales is.
Stipe: cylindrical; 5 to 10 cm tall, 1 to 3 cm wide; with a red scaly base, to yellow towards the cap; bare, no ring or volva.
Hymenium: adnate; gills on hymenium.
Spore print: creamy white.