Hygrophorus pudorinus (Fr.) Fr. Cap 5-12cm across, convex to nearly flat with a broad umbo and a downy, inrolled margin that later expands; pale tan to pinky-buff; smooth and sticky. Gills subdecurrent, distant, narrow, waxy: white tinged buff or pale salmon. Stem 40-100 x 8-20mm, solid; white tinged pink with distinct white tufts of hair at the top, flattened hairs toward the bottom which become reddish with age and turn orange-yellow with KOH; dry. Flesh thick, firm: white tinged with pink. Odor none or faintly fragrant. Taste unpleasant, like turpentine. Spores ellipsoid, nonamyloid, 6.5-9.5 x 4-5.5ì. Deposit white. Habitat scattered to ,gregarious under conifers and sometimes in bogs. Common. Found in Europe and widely distributed in northern North America, south to northern California. Season August-December (January in California). Edible.