Laccaria bicolor (Maire) Oroton syn. L. proxima var. bicolor (Maire) Kühn. & Romagn. Zweifarbiger Lacktrichterling Bicoloured Deceiver. Cap 2–4.5cm across, convex then flattened, often centrally depressed and incurved at the margin, ochraceous-tan drying pinkish to ochraceous-buff, surface scurfy. Stem 50–140 x 4–10mm, ochraceous-buff to rusty-tan, fibrillose, with distinctive lilac down covering the lower third. Flesh thin, whitish tinged pinkish to ochraceous. Taste and smell not distinctive. Gills pale lilac at first becoming clay-lilac and finally pallid. Spore print white. Spores broadly elliptic to subglobose, spiny, 7–9.5 x 6–7.5m. Habitat in mixed birch and pine woods. Season late summer to autumn. Uncommon. Edible – not worthwhile (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) Found In Europe and reported it from north America.