Two-coloured Scalycap

Pholiota spumosa

Coniferous forests. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 3-7 (10) cm across, flattened, with a blunt umbo, sometimes slightly depressed, sticky in wet weather, the central part orange-brown, rusty-red, pinkish, the margin more yellow. Gills yellowish, cream, later brownish-greyish-brown, crowded, broad, adnate or semi-decurrent. Stem 3-7x0.4-1 cm, of even thickness, greenish-yellowish at the top, reddish-brown lower down, fibrous. Flesh yellowish, mild-tasting. Characteristic features: grows in coniferous forests on rotten spruce and pine wood. Appears in small groups. Uncommon. Inedible.