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Gymnopilus junonius.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Aranysárga lánggomba, Aranysárga tőkegomba, Beringter Flämmling, Gymnopile remarquable, Pholiote remarquable, Spectacular Rustgill
Gymnopilus junonius Mushroom
Ref No: 7838
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Gymnopilus junonius2 Mushroom
Ref No: 7839
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Gymnopilus juoniusFCheck Mushroom
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Poisonous/Suspect
fungus colour: Yellow, Orange
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Ring on stem
spore colour: Rusty brown
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Gymnopilus junonius (Fr.) Orton syn. G. spectabilis var. junonius (Fr.) Kühn. & Romagn. syn. Pholiota spectabilis (Fr.) Kummer Beringter Flämmling Pholiote remarquable, Gymnopile remarquable Spectacular Rustgill Aranysárga tőkegomba (lánggomba). Cap 5–15cm across, convex then expanded, rich golden tawny covered in small fibrous adpressed scales. Stem 50–120´15–35mm, usually swollen in the lower part but narrowed again at base, chrome to ochre-buff, fibrous; ring membranous, yellowish becoming rusty from the spores, soon collapsing. Flesh pale yellowish. Taste bitter, smell not distinctive. Gills yellow then rusty-brown. Cheilocystidia thin-walled, hyaline, skittle-shaped. Spore print rust. Spores elliptic to almond-shaped, roughened, 8–10´5–6m. Habitat in dense clusters at the base of deciduous trees or on stumps or logs. Season late summer to early winter. Common. Not edible -suspect. Distribution, America and Europe.

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Yves Peeters (Belgium) - 06 January 2015

Grows on wood and roots of deciduous trees.
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Julius Helinski (United States) - 19 January 2014

"Gymnopilus spectabilis- November 2013 growing on a maple stump in Michigan
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jele na (Croatia) - 28 October 2012

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Marjan Kustera (Yugoslavia) - 19 May 2011

Fungus found and took a photo, a member of the Mycological Association FUNGI-NIS, SERBIA, Dejan Sтојаnović,Babušnica
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Mirosław Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 11 December 2010

Koscierzyna-Kaszuby.Poland
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