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Brown roll-rim

Paxillus involutus · Roll-rims (Paxillus)

Deadly poisonous
Brown roll-rim
📷 Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Deadly poisonous. Poisonous raw; even cooked, after repeated meals it can trigger an immune reaction that destroys red blood cells – with fatalities.

Recognise it safely – what matters

  1. Inrolled, felty cap margin
  2. Gills stain brown when pressed
  3. Once regarded as edible – that is outdated

Features

Cap
5–15 cm, ochre to olive brown, margin inrolled for a long time and felty.
Underside
Gills: yellowish brown, running down the stem, easily separable from the cap; turn reddish brown where pressed.
Stem
Short, brownish, without a ring.
Flesh
Yellowish, browns.
Smell
Sourish
Spore print
Brown

Season

Habitat

Very common in forests, parks and gardens, especially near birch and spruce.

Berk, Fijnspar, Eik, Den

If someone has eaten it

First vomiting and diarrhoea; with the immune reaction abdominal and back pain, dark urine, destruction of blood cells up to kidney failure. First symptoms: gastrointestinal after 1–2 hours, the immune reaction within a few hours.

Act immediately – even without symptoms:

  • Emergency number 112 if someone feels unwell.
  • Poison centre: Germany – area code of the nearest city with a poison centre + 19240 (e.g. Berlin 030 19240, Munich 089 19240) · Austria +43 1 406 43 43 · Switzerland 145.
  • Keep leftovers, trimmings or vomit – it helps with identification.

Never identify mushrooms by pictures or an app alone. When in doubt, ask a mushroom expert – and only pick what you know for sure.

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