Common Rustgill

Gymnopilus penetrans

Forests, parks, on rotten coniferous, more rarely deciduous wood. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3-8 cm across, convex-flattened, surface smooth, rarely fibrous, dry, golden, reddish-yellow. Gills pale yellow, reddish-yellow when mature, rust-spotted, notched, edges white-toothed, notched, semi-decurrent. Stem 3-8x0.3-1 cm, slightly thickening towards the base, yellowish, reddish-brown when old, tough. Flesh yellowish, smelling of wood, bitter. Characteristic features: cap not scaly, grows mostly only on rotten coniferous wood. Appears as several fruiting bodies together. Inedible, common.