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| location: North America |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: Yellow |
| normal size: Less than 5cm |
| cap type: Distinctly scaly |
| stem type: Ring on stem |
| flesh: Mushroom slimy or sticky |
| spore colour: Rusty brown |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on wood |
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Pholiota limonella (Pk.) Sacc. Cap 2.5-5cm across, convex or nearly flat, sometimes with an umbo; lemon yellow when fresh, scattered with hairy, tawny red, sub-erect scales; sticky. Gills sinuate-adnate, close, narrow; whitish becoming rust-red. Stem 30-10 X 3-5mm; pallid or yellowish with scattered recurved yellow scales; smooth above the ring. Veil forms a cottony evanescent yellow ring. Flesh thin; yellow. Odor mild. Taste mild. Spores ovoid to ellipsoid, smooth, distinct pore at apex, 6-7.5 x 4-5µ. Deposit rusty brown. Pleurocystidia and cheilocystidia present; caulocystidia rare. Habitat on fallen beech trunks. Found in New York and Idaho. Season September. Not edible. |
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Trevor Clayton (United States) - 23 December 2008
Olympic Peninsula, Washington
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Trevor Clayton (United States) - 23 December 2008
Olympic Peninsula, Washington
one of many fantastic groupings on a downed coniferous trunk.
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