How to tell Wood woollyfoot from Deadly dapperling

The cap is 2 to 7 cm across, usually 3 to 6 cm, convex with an inrolled margin at first, then flattening, sometimes with a low broad bump or a slight dip; old caps have a wavy, wrinkled or grooved edge.

The surface is hygrophanous, smooth or finely fibrous, dry and matt, sometimes with small white felty spots. The colour varies a lot: pinkish cream, yellowish buff, ochre or reddish brown, darker in the centre.

The cap is small, 2-5 cm across, hemispherical to convex when young, later flattening out with a broad, low bump in the centre. Overall it's pale cream or pinkish-cream, with characteristic concentric rings of reddish-brown or brick-coloured scales (as if dusted with ground pepper). The scales crowd together at the centre and thin out toward the edge. Beneath them the surface is smooth.

The gills are widely spaced and narrow, narrowly attached or almost free, pale yellowish at first and turning reddish brown with age.

The spore print is white to pale cream.

Underneath are crowded, thin gills that are free (not attached to the stem), white to cream, turning cream-ochre with age. The spore print is white, an important feature for telling it apart from Agaricus mushrooms, whose print is chocolate-black.

The stem is 3 to 8 cm tall and 0.3 to 0.8 cm thick, cylindrical and slightly wider at the base, tough and hollow, cap-coloured or yellowish brown, paler and finely frosted at the top. There's no ring.

The lower half is densely covered in white to yellowish woolly hairs that bind the leaf litter at the base.

The stem is 3-6 cm tall and 0.3-0.7 cm thick, cylindrical and slender. It's whitish toward the top, with reddish-brown or pink tones and small scales lower down. The ring is either absent or just a thin, indistinct band of scales, practically invisible in mature mushrooms. The stem flesh is firm.

The flesh is thin, tough and pale yellowish to brownish yellow.

The flesh is thin and white, with a pinkish tinge in the lower part of the stem. It doesn't change colour quickly when cut. There's no strong odour, just a delicate fruity smell.

The smell is faint and indistinct, slightly sour according to some descriptions. The taste is burning and peppery.

Faintly fruity and sweet, a bit like apples, and that's exactly what makes it so treacherous. The smell raises no alarm; if anything, it's appealing, especially to children. Don't rely on smell or taste to identify it: neither gives any hint of deadly toxicity.