Pholiota spumosa    (Fr.) Singer 



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

edibility : unknown edibility

potential confusions with Pholiota spumosa toxicity of Pholiota spumosa genus Pholiota  

The cap is pale to bright lemon yellow; its margin is with white veil remnants. The cap surface is smooth, viscid or sticky.

The stem is yellow, brownish towards base, with a ring zone (cortina remains).

The flesh is pallid to bright yellow, unchanging; its taste is mild to bitter; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are pale yellow to olive-brown, adnate, crowded . The spore print is brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on dead wood or on the ground, in coniferous woods, with spruce, pine.

The fruiting period takes place from August to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 8 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 2.5 and 8 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 5 mm (between 2 and 10 mm)

Distinctive features : almost entirely bright yellow, except cap centre which is more coppery-orange; viscous cap surface, but dry stem; on dead coniferous wood

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



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