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The Miller
Edible 
Autumn 
Summer 
This is not a mushroom for novice foragers as it looks very like the deadly poisonous Clitocybe dealbata or rivulosa and great care should be taken when trying to identify this species.
| Mushroom Type | |
| Common Names | The Miller, The Sweetbread Mushroom |
| Scientific Name | Clitopilus prunulus |
| Season Start | Jun |
| Season End | Nov |
| Average Mushroom height (CM) | 5 |
| Average Cap width (CM) | 10 |
Cap
White to porcelain white with a fine suede like surface when dry. Starts fairly round but develops very uneven lobed edges and a depressed centre.
Gills
White turning to pink as the pink spores colour them. Strongly decurrent, running down the stem.
Stem
White with slight grey hints and not always joined to the middle of the cap and can be quite eccentric.
Flesh
White/grey white.
Habitat
In mixed woodland in clearings especially coniferous woodland, hedgerows and roadsides.
Possible Confusion
Can look very like the Deadly Poisonous Clitocybe dealbata or rivulosa although these generally grow in rings in grassland. The best id for The Miller is the smell, like raw dough in polite company but described more accurately as spermatazoic in some mycology books.
Spore Print
Pink. Ellipsoid.
Taste / Smell
Strong mushroom taste when cooked but smells of raw dough.
Frequency
Common.
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