Pholiota aurivella (Batsch) P. Kumm. 1871
The ‘Golden Pholiota’ is saprotrophic and possibly parasitic. Grows on dead and dying hardwoods and conifers from July through autumn.
Yellow cap is slimy or sticky and is covered in conspicuous red-brown scales.
Attached gills are yellow and become rusty-brown as brownish spores mature. Stipe is dry and scaly below fibrous evanescent annulus and whitish above.
Edible, but easily confused with the inedible Pholiota limonella.
Pholiota aurivella
Pholiota aurivella
Pholiota aurivella