Pholiota squarrosa - Чешуйчатка обыкновенная - Shaggy Pholiota - Schuppige Schichtpilz 9/28/09—10/18/25
🆔 Pholiota squarrosa (Vahl) P.Kumm.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills, close to crowded, whitish to yellowish when young, becoming greenish-yellow then cinnamon-brown
ℹ️ Cap: convex to broadly convex, surface dry, yellow-ochre underneath buff to tawny, overlaid with upturned, coarse, brownish, recurved scales
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Adnate to sinuate (not strongly decurrent)
ℹ️ Stipe: cylindrical, dry, yellowish and covered in tawny scales below the ring zone; bears a persistent woolly or fibrous ring formed from the partial veil
🟤 Spore print cinnamon-rusty-brown
🪵 Saprobic, opportunistically parasitic, clusters on living (weakened) or decaying wood, at tree bases, summer to late autumn
⁉️🍸 Not recommended, sever cases of poisoning (with alcohol)
📏 Fruit body medium, stipe 4–12 cm long, ~1.5 cm thick
📐 Cap 3–12 cm diameter
🔪 Flesh is white to pale yellow, no staining
🧪 Spores reddish-brown in KOH
👃 Faint, radish or skunk-like
👅 Unpleasant, radish-like
🔬 Spores ellipsoid, smooth, ~6–8×4–5 µm, distinct apical pore, pleurocystidia clavate to subfusiform, ~45×14 µm, cheilocystidia subfusiform to fusoid-ventricose, ~43×15 µm
🔤 Wood-decaying, scaly, medium-sized cluster mushroom with a dry, coarse-scaled cap and stem
Pholiota squarrosa - Чешуйчатка обыкновенная - Shaggy Pholiota - Schuppige Schichtpilz