Plums and custard or Prunes and custard

Cap 4-12 cm across, in young specimens convex with an inrolled margin, becoming with age flattened and spreading, with a slightly wavy margin. The cap skin is golden-yellow, densely covered in tiny red-purple fibrous scales, especially in the center, where the scales can merge into a solid red field. Toward the margin the scales thin out and yellow dominates. In old fruit bodies it is mostly yellow-ochre with rusty spots.

Cap 3-8 cm across, when young convex with an inrolled margin, with age becoming flat and spread out with a slightly sunken center. The cap skin is dry-fibrous, golden yellow, densely covered in small grey-brown fibrous scales, especially in the center. The base color is golden yellow to yellow-orange.

Gilled hymenophore — the gills are notched-attached to the stem, crowded, fleshy, distinctly golden-yellow (one of the brightest yellow hymenophores among the knights). Spore print white to cream — a hallmark of the genus Tricholomopsis (not pink, as in Rhodocollybia).

Gilled hymenophore: the gills are notched (emarginate) at the stem, crowded, fleshy, distinctly yellow. Spore print white to cream.

Stem 4-8 cm tall, 0.8-2 cm thick, cylindrical, hollow inside in older specimens. Color: yellowish to yellow-orange, the lower part covered in the same red-purple scales as the cap. Surface dry and fibrous. No ring.

Stem 3-7 cm tall, 0.5-1.2 cm thick, cylindrical, hollow in old specimens. Color yellowish to yellow-orange, with fine brownish-fibrous scales on the lower part. Surface dry-fibrous. No ring.

Flesh yellowish, thin and cottony in the cap, rather tough in the stem. No noticeable color change when cut. Smell faintly mushroomy, with a note of wood or rotten wood in mature specimens, taste indistinct or bitterish.

Flesh yellowish, thin and cottony in the cap, rather tough in the stem. When cut, there are no noticeable color changes. Smell faintly mushroomy with a woody note, taste mild with a sourish-bitter aftertaste.

Faintly mushroomy with woody notes, nothing distinctive. Not sharp.

Faintly mushroomy with woody notes, not distinctive.