Trooping Funnel

Trooping funnel aka Clitocybe geotropa

This is one of my ultimate favourite mushrooms to eat, I love them fried in butter til they’re crispy… it’s heaven!

The stems are a little too tough to cook so I tend to dry and powder them and use as a flavouring

These guys are make some epic mushroom samosas or just cook them in some butter until they’re crispy

Identifying features for trooping funnels

•caps are big up to 20cm in diameter

•buff whitish cream colour, flat when young and becoming funnel shaped with age

•the cap has an umbo (little lump in the middle… no umbo it’s not a trooping funnel)

•gills are similar in colour to the cap

•gills are crowded and decurrent (running down the stem)

•the stem is firm and tough and swollen at the base. The stem is often more yellowish brown than the cap

•spores are white

•faint almondy/mushroomy smell

If you have all these features it’s likely you have trooping funnels

Look a likes…

Giant funnel which has a more of a dotty zoned ring pattern on the cap, no umbo and a more bulbous stem

Other funnels which are much smaller with a more breakable stem and no umbo

Clouded agaric which is more grey and no umbo