Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Pholiota aurivella

Pholiota aurivella - 1418/5000
Hat with a diameter of 50-130 mm, initially bell-arched, then flat-arched, finally flat; when young and in wet conditions very slippery, even smeary, glossy; surface covered with large, adjacent, fibrous, triangular, rusty-brown villi, scales that are washed away by rain; the edge of the hat in young sporocarps often with the remains of the partial cover; of yellow-yellow, lemon-yellow, golden-yellow, rusty-yellow color.

Lamellae broad, dense, adnate to the stipe or serrated, on the blade sawn; initially light, cream-yellow, then olive, rusty-brown, yellowish ciliated.

Stem 50 to 120 mm high, up to 15 mm thick; cylindrical, solid, fibrous, bent, sulfur-yellow inside; on the surface covered with scales, clearly visible especially in younger years, later a fading zone of the ring in the form of a ring of woolly, brown scales, above it yellowishly mossy, below brownish, with protruding wisps.

The ring disappearing, often invisible.

The flesh is yellowish, darker in stem, hard, unchanging; mild flavor, unspecified odor, can be slightly radish.

Occurrence: Usually in tufts, rarely singly, on living and dead deciduous trees, rarely on conifers, often in minor wounds, sometimes at high altitudes. From April to May and from July to November.

Value: Inedible fungus, although the sentences are divided.