The stem is short, thick, often striated, whitish, soft, stuffed, sometimes slightly powdered at the apex, root blunt. The spores are white and elliptical.
It is easily distinguished from C. radicata by the blunt base of the root and the very broad gills. Like C. radicata they need to be cooked well or there is a slightly bitter taste to them. They are found from June to October.
Collybia dryophila. Bull.
Oak-loving Collybia. Edible.
Photo by C. G. Lloyd.
Figure 80.—Collybia dryophila. Natural size. Caps bay-brown.
Dryophila is from two Greek words, oak and fond of. The pileus is bay-brown, bay red, or tan color, one or two inches broad, convex, plane, sometimes depressed and the margin elevated, flesh thin and white.
The gills are free with a decurrent tooth, crowded, narrow, white, or whitish, rarely yellow.