Flammulina fennae    Bas 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Physalacriaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Dermolomataceae  

edibility : edible

potential confusions with Flammulina fennae toxicity of Flammulina fennae genus Flammulina  

The cap is ochre to whitish; its margin is striate when moist. The cap surface is smooth, viscid or sticky.

The stem is yellow at the top, dark brown to black towards base, velvety, without ring.

The flesh is whitish to pale yellow, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is pleasant; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are creamy white then salmon pink, adnate, distant . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic, sometimes parasitic. It grows on wood, sometimes still alive, in tufts, in broad-leaved woods, with ash, oak, poplar.

The fruiting period takes place from April to October.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 8 cm)
  height of stem approximately 4 cm (between 3 and 5 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 4 mm (between 3 and 4 mm)

Distinctive features : see Flammulina velutipes

Flammulina fennae is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .



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