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Welcome to Mushroom World, your resource for mushroom information. On this site you can search for mushrooms in our database and read about them. You can use this information to identify fungus, but do not eat mushrooms you are not 100% certain of. Use many resources, and be skeptical of your own conclusions. It takes normally years of experience to be able to identify mushrooms reliably. The responsibility for the identification is yours; the site takes no responsibility for damage caused by wrong identifications. Please read the disclaimer.
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Help identifying a mushroom
If you know how a mushroom looks, but need help to identify it, try our Mushroom identification helper. You can browse mushroom pictures there and perhaps find a match.
If this site cannot help you, we recommend mushroomobserver.org, which is a community site for mushroom identifications.
Today's Mushroom
Todays mushroom is Pholiota squarrosa (Dry Scaly Pholiota). The mushroom is Inedible. It grows in North America, Europe.
Description: The hat of this agaric is yellow-white and covered with brown scales. The gills are light yellow to brown. The foot is the same color as the hat and protruding scales. Grows on hardwood, often at the base of live or dead hardwoods.
Cap straw-yellow covered in coarse, upturned, rust scales; convex, becoming flattened but with persistently inrolled margin, not greasy or viscid. Flesh pallid yellow and firm. Gills pallid yellow, becoming cinnamon at maturity, adnate, crowded. Spores are brown. Stem colored as cap above, becoming tinged rust towards the base, more or less equal or tapering downwards, scaly as cap. Ring ragged and almost zone-like.
Similar species Smaller and paler Pholiota squarrosoides is highly sticky-slimy beneath the scales. It also occurs on deciduous trees but is rare in Europe, more common in North America. Gymnopilys junonius found in the same habitat, lacks the distinctive cap scales.
Pholiota squarrosa on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
Dimensions: Cap 3-12 cm diameter, stem 5-12 cm tall * 1-1.5 cm thick
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.
