Yellowish Oysterling

Crepidotus luteolus – Other

On rotten deciduous wood, herbaceous plant debris. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 1-3 cm across, roundly kidney-shaped when young, later irregularly fan-shaped, the margin wavy; fragile, at first white, silky-fibrous, white, yellowish; with age the fibrils disappear. Gills crowded, white, cream, old ones ochre-brownish, brown. Stem only rudimentary or entirely absent, the cap attached to the substrate by its side or back. Flesh thin. Characteristic features: cap white, yellowish, fibrous. Grows in small groups in forests, parks and gardens on rotten deciduous wood. Uncommon. Saprotroph.