Golden Trumpets

Xeromphalina campanella

Mossy pine and spruce stumps, windfalls, snags. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 0.5-2 cm across, bell-shaped when young, later semi-convex, convex, the centre depressed, hygrophanous, sticky, dry, the margin conspicuously furrowed, yellowish-brown, orange-yellow, fading to yellowish. Gills yellowish, far decurrent. Stem 1-3x0.1-0.2 cm, tough, the base sometimes thickened, the colour of the cap, yellow-fibrous. Flesh thin, yellowish. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies tiny, growing in colonies. Grows in summer and autumn, mostly on mossy spruce and pine stumps, snags and windfalls. Saprotroph. Very common. Inedible.