Alder Scalycap - Pholiota alnicola
A smooth, pale yellow cap, grreasy when wet. Sometimes with rusty spots or darker in the centre, and with brown veil fragments at the margins. Young caps have a fine veil, or cortina, covering the gills. The gills are also pale yellow, darkening to rusty brown with age. The fibrillose stem is yellow, with darker base, and a faint ring zone.
Photograph from top down, in side view and underneath to show gills and full length of stipe. Note habitat, substrate ansd associated tree species.
On stumps at the base of various deciduous trees (not just Alder); often on Birch, despite name.
September to December.
Widespread and frequent (Kibby, Vol. 3, 2021)
Infrequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
In Kibby, Vol.3, it is named Flammula alnicola in the Hymenogastraceae family. Also under this name in Laessoe & Petersen.
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Species profile
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Strophariaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 18/10/2018 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 06/11/2022 (Bell, Melinda)
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