Cortinarius mucosus

orange webcap

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-10-12.

Gills, moderately spaced, initially pale brownish, becoming rusty-brown with age as spores mature

Convex, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat with age, slimy and sticky when wet, reddish-brown to yellowish-brown, darker at the center

Adnate to slightly emarginate

Cylindrical, sticky, whitish to pale yellow, often covered in a slimy veil when young, slightly clavate at the base

Spore print rusty brown

Mycorrhizal with pines and with other conifers, growing alone, scattered, or gregariously, late summer and fall

No nutritional value and considered inedible, tends to accumulate heavy metals in large quantities

Fruit body medium to large-sized, stipe 4-10 cm long, 1–2.5 cm thick

Cap 5–10 cm in diameter

KOH blackish red on cap surface

Odour faintly earthy, sometimes indistinct

Not distinctive

Spores amygdaliform, moderately to strongly verrucose, 11-17 x 5-7.5 µ, basidia 4-spored

Medium to large-sized, slimy mushroom with a characteristic sticky cap and stipe

1867). Fl. Crypt. Flandres (Paris) 2: 191.

Soodla jõgi, Harjumaa, Estonia

Pine-spruce-birch woodland, near pines, in moss

59°23'11.6"N 25°23'46.4"E

🔆 Storm cloud, mild rain, forest shade