Mushroom Type Edible  
    
Common Name 2 Giant funnel Mushroom 
Common Name 3 Monks Head 
Latin Name Clitocybe geotropa 
    

    
Maximum height (CM) 17 
Maximum width (CM) 20 
    
Smell Faint, slightly sweet with a slight bitter almond aroma. 
Gills Pale buff/yellow sometimes with a salmon pink tinge. Running down the stem. Crowded. 
Spore Print White, subglobose. 
Stem Swollen and a bit woolly at the base. Pale buff/yellow sometimes with a tinge of salmon pink. The stem is very tough and fibrous and usually requires a knife to harvest them.
 
Cap Convex with in-turned edge and obvious umbo becoming flattened then funnel-shaped but keeping an in-turned edge. Buff/yellow to having a salmon pink tinge. 
Flesh White. 
Habitat Mixed woodland, especially clearings and roadsides. Mainly grows in troops or rings but can be found individually. 
Taste Mushroomy. Best eaten young although the larger fungi have a really strong taste and are gr