Yellow Club

Clavulinopsis helvola – Inedible

Coniferous and deciduous forests, forest edges. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies 3-7 cm tall, straight, unbranched, almost cylindrical, with blunt tips, yellow or orange-yellow. Stem short, slightly paler than the upper part of the fruiting body. Flesh yellowish, without any particular smell, slightly bitter-tasting. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies cylindrical, with blunt tips. Grows singly or in small groups, in forests among grass, in pastures, on fallow land, favouring grassy, brighter places. Inedible. Rare, only 3 sites are known (two in Marijampolė district and one in Klaipėda district). It should be looked for in other forests too and should be classed as protected.