Velvet shank or Wrinkled peach

The cap is 2-8 cm, hemispherical at first, then convex and finally flat. It's yellow-orange or honey-yellow, darker in the centre and paler toward the edge. In wet weather it's slimy and shiny; in dry weather, somewhat matte. The cap skin peels off easily.

The cap is 3 to 8 cm across, occasionally 10 cm. It starts almost spherical, then becomes convex with an inrolled margin and finally almost flat. Young caps are pink, later peach, salmon, apricot-orange or pinkish red.

The surface is jelly-like, sticky and rubbery, covered in a network of paler veins and pits. The net is clearest on fresh young caps; older or late-season caps can be almost smooth. The cap skin peels off completely.

The gills are crowded and thin, attached to the stem or running slightly down it, whitish to cream and yellowing with age. The spore print is white, an important feature for telling it apart from the poisonous funeral bell (whose spore print is rusty brown).

The gills are attached or almost free, pinkish, paler than the cap and salmon pink with age, with many shorter gills in between.

The spore print is very pale pink to cream.

The stem is 3-7 cm tall and 0.3-0.8 cm thick: slender, cylindrical, often curved and hollow. Its telltale feature is a velvety dark brown surface, especially lower down (the upper part is paler, yellowish). There's no ring, but that alone proves nothing: the funeral bell's ring is fragile and often disappears. Its stem, though, is brown with pale lengthwise fibres, not velvety.

The stem is short, 1 to 5 cm long and 0.5 to 1.5 cm thick, often curved and off-centre, white to pinkish and covered in white fibres, slightly thicker at the base. There's no ring.

Young stems "bleed", with orange or red droplets on the surface.

The flesh is thin and yellowish in the cap, fibrous and springy in the stem. It doesn't change colour when cut. It has a pleasant mild flavour.

The flesh is springy and rubbery, jelly-like under the cap skin, whitish to pale pink, and doesn't change colour when cut.

A faint, pleasant mushroomy smell. The taste is mild and delicate.

The smell is weak: some people notice a faint fruity, apricot-like note, others smell nothing. The taste is bitter.