Pileus 10-14 cm. diam., light to medium ochraceous brown, darker at centre, covered with fibrillose scales, pellicle peeling; flesh yellow when first cut, then turning brown, flesh of centre of cap and stipe turning bright green and then darkening almost to indigo. Pores 3-9 mm. long X 1-2 mm. wide, dissepiments thin, pore layer separable. Stipe 2.5 X 3 cm., tapered slightly to rooting base to which was attached a mass of white mycelium binding the litter together; more or less distinct ring, brownish in colour and somewhat scaly below the ring, yellowish and striate above. Spores 11 X 3.5m, ochraceous tawny, thickwalled.

under Pseudotsuga menziesii, Ashley Forest