Orange Oyster

Phyllotopsis nidulans

Rotten spruce, pine and deciduous (hornbeam, oak) wood. Spring, autumn, even winter (in cellars, greenhouses).

Fruiting bodies small to medium-sized. Cap 3-8 cm across, shell-, fan- or kidney-shaped, velvety, strongly hairy, tough, yellowish, orange-yellow. Gills the colour of the cap. There is no stem. Flesh yellow, tough, with an unpleasant smell, not bitter. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies tough, stemless, orange, spores tiny. Grows in forests and in enclosed premises on rotten coniferous, more rarely deciduous wood. Inedible, uncommon. It differs from the oyster rollrim by its stemless, hairier, fibrous orange cap.