Cortinarius croceus

saffron webcap

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-10-19.

Gills, moderately spaced, bright yellow when young, becoming rusty-brown as spores mature

Convex to broadly convex, often with a slight umbo, bright saffron-yellow to orange-yellow, slimy or sticky when wet, fading slightly with age

Adnate

Slender, cylindrical, yellowish to orange-yellow, often with rusty-brown fibrils from the veil, slightly swollen at the base

Spore print: Rusty-brown

Mycorrhizal with conifer trees, growing alone or scattered, in mossy forest floors, late summer to autumn

Inedible, not recommended for consumption due to potential confusion with toxic species

Fruit body small to medium-sized, 3-7 cm long, up to 1 cm thick

Cap: 1.5-8 cm in diameter

KOH on cap surface red, then dark red to black

Odour radishlike or iodoform tinged

Taste indistinct

Spores ellipsoid, slightly to moderately roughened, 6.5-9 x 4.5-6 µ, basidia 4-spored

Small to medium-sized mushroom with a saffron-yellow cap and gills

1821). Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 630.

Soodla jõgi, Harjumaa, Estonia

Spruce-pine-birch forest, in moss with pine needles

59°23'15.1"N 25°23'44.3"E

🔆 Clear sky, forest shade