– Cap honey-yellow to amber-colored, slimy in wet weather.
– Gills adnexed, yellowish-white.
– Stem tough, elastic, beautifully minutely tomentose, especially in older specimens.
Miscellaneous agarics
Velvet Shank
Flammulina velutipes
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows on trunks, stumps, and logs of deciduous trees during late autumn and mild winters.
Notes
A good edible mushroom, but only the caps are used. Works well in a hearty mushroom soup.
Similar species
Several closely related and similar species in the same genus exists, all of which are edible.
Some Hypholoma-species can grow in a similar manner but do not have a tomentose stem, and they have dark spores, unlike the Flammulina-species which has white spores.
There are several poisonous mushrooms that grow on stumps, such as Galerina marginata, so be careful to ensure you have picked the right m
Some Hypholoma-species can grow in a similar manner but do not have a tomentose stem, and they have dark spores, unlike the Flammulina-species which has white spores.
There are several poisonous mushrooms that grow on stumps, such as Galerina marginata, so be careful to ensure you have picked the right m
