Alder Scalycap - Pholiota alnicola
This yellowy fawn fungus is one of the least scaly of the so called scalycaps.
On stumps and dead trunks and branches of alder, willow and birch; often beside streams and lakes and in other shaded, damp places.
September to December.
Widespread in Britain. It is not particularly common but is possibly increasing.
Infrequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Bradgate Park
15 October 2020
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
19 October 2012
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
19 October 2012
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
19 October 2012
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
19 October 2012
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Strophariaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 19/10/2012 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 06/11/2022 (Bell, Melinda)
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