Fruit body: cap up to 15 cm, fleshy, first rounded, then expanded and depressed, mildly wrinkled, in different shades of purple, with tint of ochraceous, pink, green or other colours. Gills are flexible (when you go over them with a finger, they don’t break, but stay attached), whitish. Stem is up to 10x3.5 cm, white.

Microscopy: spores globose, ornamented with isolated warts, 8—9x6—7.5 μm, whitish en masse. Cystidia are more or less elongated, pileocystidia numerous.

Flesh: hard, hitish, without distinct smell, mild, sweetish taste reminiscent of young hazelnuts.

Chemical reaction: flesh reacts with guaiacol , while with FeSO₄ no reaction or very slowly greyish-green.

Habitat: season summer to autumn, in various woods. Very common.

Edibility: edible, good quality.

Reference: Uzelac, B. (2009). Gljive Srbije i zapadnog Balkana, BGV Logik, Beograd.

Photo: Goran Milošević