How to identify it?
Cap
Cap 3.5-10 cm across, convex to flattening; brick-red in centre and paler margin; surface dry or moist, covered with woolly remnants at the margin. Flesh thin, whitish to yellowish. Taste mild to somewhat bitter.
Gills
Gills adnate, yellowish, becoming grayish, crowded.
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Scientific Classification
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Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Gilled fungi Family
Hymenogastraceae Genus
Hypholoma Species
Brick cap