22/Sep/2026 (🌅🌇), 3:06 PM
Soodla forest, Anija, Harju, Eesti
Mixed (conifer dominant) forest woodland edge damp waxcap grassland, in sandy soil
59°23'15.3"N 25°23'43.2"E
🌡️ 14°C ⛅ Scattered clouds 💨 Wind 40° NE->SW, 20 km/h
Original Instagram postEntoloma sericellum
Cream Pinkgill
- Scientific identification
- Entoloma sericellum (Fr.) P. Kumm.
- Family
- Entolomataceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Entoloma
Names across languages
- English: Cream Pinkgill
- German: Weißer Glöckling
- Finnish: Valkorusokas
- Estonian: Kreem punalehik
- Russian: Энтолома шелконосная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-22.
Hymenium
Gills moderately distant; pure white when young, becoming pale pink with maturity; edges concolorous
Cap
Hemispherical to convex, later expanding; white, progressively yellow-ochre from centre; finely felted to minutely squamulose; non-hygrophanous, margin not translucently striate
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate with a slight decurrent tooth
Stipe
Slender, cylindrical, white to yellowish-ochre; pruinose near apex, smooth and polished below; hollow and fragile; ring absent
Spore print
Spore print pink
Description
Saprobic mainly in semi-natural grasslands, meadows and grassy woodland edges, also parkland and deciduous woodland; scattered or in small groups, occasionally arcs; summer to late autumn
Edibility
Inedible
Fruit body
Fruit body small; stipe ~2–4 cm long and ~0.1–0.2 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~0.5–2(–3) cm
Flesh
White, thin and brittle, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
No macroscopic reagents reaction
Odour
Indistinct
Taste
Indistinct
Microscopy
Spores heterodiametrical, distinctly 5–7-angled, ~9.5–14 × 7–9.5 µm; basidia 4-spored with clamps; cheilocystidia scattered, cylindrical, fusiform to lageniform, ~35–50 × 7–11.5 µm; pileipellis transitional between cutis and trichoderm
Overview
Tiny white pinkgill gradually turning yellow-ochre with age
1871). Führ. Pilzk. (Zerbst): 97.
Field encounters
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