Yellow Fan / Fairy Fan

Spathularia flavida

Forests, forest margins, among grasses and mosses. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3-5 (6) cm tall and 1-2 cm wide, shaped like a spatula or a tennis racket, folded and wrinkled, soft yellow, orange-yellow. Stem 3—5 cm long and 2.5 cm thick, white, broadly enclosed by the cap. Flesh soft. Characteristic features: spores very large, with transverse septa. Grows singly, but sometimes in groups, next to one another, several dozen fruiting bodies, in forests. Rare. Edible, but of low value; it is left untouched.