Shaggy scalycap

Description:

The shaggy scalycap (Pholiota squarrosa) grows in autumn at the spruce stem base. Its fruit bodies appear on each infested tree only once in year, then it was the embarrassing surprise when I came to the most scalycap-productive spruce in the forest and found that someone harvested all scalycaps before me. Thats how I knew that someone besides me picks this mushroom in our forest. Yes, you understood me correct: shaggy scalycap is edible and tasty, especially being pickled. And also it may shock the uninformed spectator who see it between other mushrooms in a basket :)