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Pholiota adiposa.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Nyálkás tőkegomba, óriás tőkegomba, Schleimiger Schüppling
Pholiota adiposa Mushroom
Ref No: 8575
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: Yellow, Red or redish or pink
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Distinctly scaly
stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent, Ring on stem
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy), Mushroom slimy or sticky
spore colour: Rusty brown
habitat: Grows on wood

Pholiota adiposa (Fr.) Kummer syn. Dryophila sciposa (Fr.) Quél. Schleimiger Schüppling Nyálkás (óriás) tőkegomba. Cap 5–12cm across, golden-yellow, viscid, covered in gelatinous rusty-brown upturned scales especially towards the centre. Stem 20–50 x 5–10mm, often curved or distorted due to growing in clusters, yellow, smooth above the inconspicuous torn ring, covered in bands of viscid brownish recurved scales below. Flesh tough, pale yellow in cap darkening to brownish in the stem. Smell scented. Gills yellow at first later rusty-brown. Pleurocystidia thin-walled, lanceolate with an acute mucronate apex. Spore print rusty-brown. Spores oval, smooth, 5–6.5 x 3–3.5um. Habitat is dense clusters at the foot of beech trees or stumps. Season late summer to autumn. Uncommon. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.

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Jorge Jensen (United States) - 29 September 2010

Pholiota adiposa
Jorge Jensen (United States) - 29 September 2010

Late September '10. Ontario, Canada.
Pholiota adiposa
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