Spectacular Rustgill - Gymnopilus junonius
This is a large fungus (cap to 15 cm) that varies in colour and cap may be saffron, orange or ochre, and is covered in fibres. The stem has a ring and crowded gills are rust-brown at maturity.
Other rust-gills are usually smaller
Photograph from top down, in side-view and gills; indicate size, note habitat and substrate; species of tree it is growing on or under
Typically found growing on tree stumps, logs, or at the base of deciduous trees.
Found from late summer to autumn
Widespread but not particularly common in Britain.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
23 October 2004
Melinda Bell
Coleorton,footpath to Moor Lane
10 November 2020
cap has scales and veil remnants on edges
Melinda Bell
Coleorton,footpath to Moor Lane
10 November 2020
has a ring and golden/brown gills
Ben Devine
Saltersford Brook
10 August 2017
Lostash
Beacon Hill
19 October 2014
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Species profile
- Common names
- Spectacular Rustgill
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Hymenogastraceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 9
- First record:
- 23/10/2004 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 13/10/2024 (Cherry, Taela-Rae)
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