Flaming Scalycap

Pholiota flammans

Forests, parks. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3-7 cm across, convex, raised-flattened, flattened, with an umbo, lemon-, sulphur-yellow, flame-coloured, sticky, scaly, fibrous. Gills the colour of the cap, greenish-yellow, yellowish-brown, adnate. Stem 3–8x0.3-0.8 cm, with a ring-like zone, the colour of the cap and likewise shaggy. Flesh yellow, fairly thick, slightly bitter-tasting. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies as if bristling, scaly, sulphur-yellow. Grows on rotten coniferous wood, windfalls and snags, singly or a few fruiting bodies together, which is uncharacteristic of stumpcaps. Inedible. Common.