The fruit bodies of the hats are relatively thin fleshy. The cap of adult mushrooms is 2-6 cm in diameter, in young mushrooms it is hemispherical to blunt, then convex and flattened, sometimes slightly depressed, with a tubercle in the center, not hygrophic, covered with a layer of mucus, especially in wet weather. The color of the hat is gray-brown or olive-brown, in the center it is darker, with a little lighter color.
The plates are rare, waxy, adhered to the leg or slightly descending on it, sometimes branching and interwoven, white or cream color.
The pulp is strong, white, often yellow under the skin in the center of the hat, and fibrous in the leg. Odor and taste are not expressed.
Leg 4-8.5 (10) cm long and 0.4-1.0 (1.2) cm thick, central, cylindrical or spindle-shaped, with mucous common and fibrous private bedspreads, then expanding, forming a mucous, soon disappearing ring , above the ring it is dry, white, often with a subtle whitish pubescence, below is the mucous membrane, first olive-brown, then with brownish to dark brown belts on a light background, especially bright when dried.
Spore imprint of white color. Spores 9-16 (18) × 6-8.5 (9) microns, elliptical. Basidia are mainly four-spore, 60–85 × 10–14 microns. Cystides are absent.
Edible mushroom of the 4th category, used in food fresh.
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- Hygrophorus persoonii Arnolds , 1979 - Hygrophor Persona - a widespread species, characterized by a smaller spore size, forming mycorrhiza with oak.
- Hygrophorus korhonenii Harmaja , 1985 - Gigrofor Korhonen is a close species, characterized by a larger wide- bell-shaped hat with a sharp tubercle, gray-brown in color, without an olive shade, often, like a leg, drying out, as well as a smaller spore size.
- Hygrophorus latitabundus Britzelm. , 1899 - The hiding hygrophor is the most massive species of the group, it is distinguished by significantly smaller spores and a thick spindle-shaped leg without distinct bands, but with only small spots in the lower part, it forms mycorrhiza mainly with pine.
It occurs in August - November in coniferous and mixed forests, almost always with spruce .
A species widespread in the boreal zone of Eurasia, in North America, apparently replaced by the hyphor of Korhonen.
