Yellow Fieldcap

Bolbitius vitellinus

Forest edges, parks, meadows, pastures, gardens. Summer, more rarely autumn.

Fruiting bodies small, delicate. Cap 2-5 (6) cm across, delicate, bell-shaped, later raised-flattened, with a distinct umbo, sticky, lemon-yellow, creamy yellow, fading to yellowish, the margin furrowed. Gills yellowish, old ones ochre-yellow, narrow, free. Stem 5-8 (12)x0.2-0.6 cm, thickening towards the base, the colour of the cap, fibrous, fragile. Flesh thin, yellowish, without any particular smell or taste.

Characteristic features: delicate, yellow fruiting bodies growing in meadows.

Grows singly or in small groups on humus-rich substrate. Saprotroph. Not rare. Inedible.