Xerula radicata - Hat diameter 30 to 120 mm, young bell-shaped, then flat-headed, flat, with a blunt umbo in the middle; the shore is sharp, with age rising upwards. Surface smooth, radially wrinkled, pitted, shiny, slippery and sticky; color: gray-yellow, ocher-brown, gray-brown, red-brown. Removable skin.

Thick, rare, ventral plaques of varying length; white, sometimes with a slightly darker edge; near the shaft, rounded or notched.

Stem 100 to 200 mm long, 5 to 12 mm thick; slim, thin, cylindrical, longitudinally notched, sometimes twisted around its own axis, full, with age empty. Naked surface, in the lower part may be slightly hairy; hat color, lighter at the top. At the base, they thickened and spindle-like root - the part buried in the ground length up to 300 mm.

Flesh thin, fragile, unchanging; off white. The smell is slightly perceptible, the taste is mild.

Occurrence: In deciduous forests, especially beech forests; on rotting and rotten root remnants, trunks and wood covered with soil. It grows singly or in groups; from June to October. Frequent.

Value: Edible fungus.