This mushroom can be as wide as 30 cm in diameter. Spore powder is ochre brown, clay brown. It grows individually or in small groups on pine and spruce stumps from July to October. The specific feature of this Paxillus mushroom is that it has a short, lateral or eccentric, dark velvet-like stipe. It is common in Latvia. Nowadays regarded as poisonous.

Agrāk literatūrā minēta kā ēdama, vēlāk kā neēdama, tagad tiek uzskatīta par indīgu.