Sulphur-coloured Scalycap

Pholiota flavida

On rotten coniferous wood, stumps, windfalls, snags. Autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3-6 cm across, conical, later raised-flattened, flattened, with an umbo, greenish-yellow, sulphur-yellow, the margin paler, bent downwards. Gills yellowish, later sulphur-yellow, old ones yellowish-brown. Stem 3-9 (12)x0.5-1.5 cm, thickening towards the base, the colour of the cap when young, reddish-brown when old, fibrous. Flesh sulphur-yellow, soft, without any particular smell, not bitter. Characteristic features: gills from sulphur-yellow to yellowish-brown. Grows in small groups on dead conifers, in forests, more rarely in parks. Inedible, not rare. In Lithuania 20 species of Pholiota are found, almost all of them wood saprotrophs and forest sanitisers; several species are edible but of little value, and there are no poisonous ones.