Identification
Clusters on conifer wood; cap pale yellow-brown; gills start pale and mature to smoky gray-lilac — the key field mark.
Edibility
Edible caps. The species name capnoides refers to the smoke-gray gills.
How not to confuse it
- Sulphur tuft: greenish-yellow gills, bitter — poisonous.
- Gray mature gills + conifer wood = this species.