Two parts has been criticised as giving too gluey a result and four parts as too loose; a ratio of 1:3 has been recommended.
Moist caps are gluey with a color ranging from reddish brown to pinkish-lilac; the cap margin has radial grooves mirroring the gills underneath.
The fruit is a tiny ribbed achene which swells up and becomes gluey in texture when it is moistened.
The fruits are fuzzy brown achenes only one or two millimeters long which turn gluey when wet.
The seeds are also carried in a gluey fluid.
Some of the plants are sticky, and all have seeds which become gluey when wet.
Instead of venom, it secretes a gluey substance to trap its prey.
They fruit in grains covered in a gluey secretion, and when a plant is mature each clump becomes brown and sticky with the exudate.
