Where’s Wildlife · Mushroom Field Guide
Pholiota adiposa group
Pronounced (approx.): foh-lee-OH-tuh ad-ih-POH-suh
Likely identification. This entry is excluded from quiz questions.
Golden caps dotted with reddish scales emerge in clusters from wood.
Golden Pholiota. Select the photo to browse the gallery. Photographs © Where’s Wildlife.
LIKELY IDENTIFICATION
Fruiting varies with local weather and habitat.
Glossy yellow-orange caps with brown scales
Scaly pale yellow stems
Clustered growth on dead wood
Compare form, texture and growing surfaces in the photographs below.
Likely Golden Pholiota at species-group level. These young specimens do not establish a precise species.
Names such as P. aurivella and P. limonella have been applied within this difficult complex. A photo alone does not reliably separate them.
Dead hardwood logs, stumps and trunks. Summer and fall.
Primarily decomposes wood.
Glossy yellow-orange caps with brown scales
Clustered growth on dead wood
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