Greyish-green Scalycap

Pholiota gummosa – Inedible

Habitat: forests, forest edges, parks. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies 2-6 cm across. Cap convex, later flattened, with or sometimes without an umbo, greyish-greenish, greyish-yellowish. Young gills greyish-yellowish, later yellowish-brown, adnate. Stem 3-8x0.3-0.8 cm, firm, the colour of the cap. Flesh thin, greyish, without any particular smell or taste. Characteristic features: grows on deciduous wood, in groups, sometimes large ones. Appears on rotten deciduous wood, its debris and sawdust. Inedible. Uncommon.