Pholiota lubrica    (Pers.:Fr.) Singer 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Strophariaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Strophariaceae/Pholioteae  
(unconfirmed synonyms: Pholiota groenlandica, Flammula lubrica)  

edibility : unknown edibility

potential confusions with Pholiota lubrica toxicity of Pholiota lubrica genus Pholiota  

The cap is cinnamon brown to tawny brown. The cap surface is covered with short-lasting scales, viscid or sticky.

The stem is turning brown at the base, flaky-scaly, not viscous, with a ring zone.

The flesh is whitish, brownish in stem base, unchanging; its taste is faint, of radish; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white to olive yellowish, adnate, crowded . The spore print is brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on dead wood or on the ground, in broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) woods, on a rather acid soil.

The fruiting period takes place from August to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 1 and 8 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 9 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 9 mm (between 5 and 15 mm)

Distinctive features : viscous cap surface, with white margin

Pholiota lubrica is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .



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