Names, authorship and dates from Index Fungorum.

• BasidiomycotaPhylum
• └─ AgaricomycetesClass
• └─ BoletalesOrder
• └─ GomphidiaceaeFamily
• └─ GomphidiusGenus

Higher ranks from Catalogue of Life (COL26.9 XR).

Lifestylemycorrhiza

Conservation statusleast concern

Mycorrhizal with spruce in mossy coniferous forest

⚠ Before you pickWild fungi may be taken in small quantities for your own use (§39(3) BNatSchG) — but not in nature reserves or national parks, on closed land or on farmland in use, and never for sale (§39(4)). In Bavaria this right is anchored in Art. 141(3) of the state constitution and is limited to locally customary amounts; the competent authority is the district nature-conservation authority (untere Naturschutzbehörde). Local signs and ordinances come first.

Species protection from BArtSchV Annex 1 and §2(1), retrieved 2026-10-15; Red List from Dämmrich et al. (2016) (BfN / Rote-Liste-Zentrum). Not legal advice — local rules and signage may be stricter. BArtSchV Annex 1 · Red List data

• edible mushroom

Edible

• ▸ Cap covered in a thick, slimy, grey-brown glutinous veil
• ▸ Soft grey-violet cap that darkens to brown-black with age
• ▸ Distant, waxy white-grey gills, decurrent on the stem
• ▸ Stem base is chrome-yellow