Characteristic features of phaeolepiota aurea (pictures and text)
provided by EOL authors
Guidance for identification (German text)
phaeolepiota aurea
provided by EOL authors
Found this mushroon many times here in Sweden in an area called Jämtland, English name for it " Golden Bootleg"
Some book say it's Edible, i have eating it raw, however somtimes it gave me "wind"
Advice is to cook this first.
http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/bestof/Paurea.html
Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pholiota spectabilis (Weinm.) Gill. Champ. Fr. 443. 1876
Agaricus spectabilis Weinm.; Fries, Blench. Fung. 1: 28. 1828. Pholiota lutea Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. Si : 288. 1898. Pholiota ventricosa Earle, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 2: 341. 1902.
Pileus 4-15 cm. broad, convex becoming nearly plane, buff-yellow to apricot-orange or zinc-orange, becoming at times slightly more brownish (tawny) in dried plants, dry or moist, finely silky, or in some very young plants practically glabrous at times, to distinctly fibrillose or rivulose or in mature plants squamulose, even on the margin; context yellow, with a bitter or amygdaline taste; lamellae adnexed to adnate or with decurrent teeth or lines, medium-close, 3-8 mm. broad, yellow becoming ferruginous, yellow-ochre to ochraceous-orange or tawny in dried specimens; veil forming a distinct, superior or apical, spore-stained, persistent or subpersistent annulus, sometimes striate on the upper side; stipe central or nearly so, nearly equal to decidedly ventricose or bulbous at the base, yellow or tawny, yellow and floccose above the annulus, fibrillose or furfuraceous below, 3-15 cm. long, 0.5-3 cm thick, solid; spores elliptic, rough, 7.5-9 X 4.5-6 /*; cystidia none Type locality: Europe.
Habitat: On stumps and trunks of deciduous or rarely coniferous trees, or growing from buried wood.
Distribution : Ontario to Alabama, and westward to the Pacific coast ; also in Europe
- bibliographic citation
- William Alphonso Murrill, Calvin Henry Kauffman, Lee Oras Overholts. 1924. (AGARICALES); AGARICACEAE (pars); AGARICEAE (pars), INOCYBE, PHOLIOTA. North American flora. vol 10(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY