tomentum

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The cap is thick, hemispherical or convex, dry, covered with downy scales or bundles of red hairs, yellowish beneath the tomentum, often cracked in areas.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

It bears short-stalked ovate or oblong leaves, with strongly marked veins, and covered with a soft tomentum or down.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

The stem is short and rather thick, often swollen, covered with a reddish-brown tomentum.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The stem is solid, tough and elastic, curved or straight, covered with a dense black tomentum, sometimes with violet shades.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

It is readily recognized by the red fibrillose tomentum which covers the entire plant when young.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha