Flammulina velutipes

velvet shank

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-12-30.

Gills, moderately spaced, pale cream to white when young, becoming pale ochre with age.

Convex to broadly convex, flattened with age, surface smooth and sticky when moist, orange to reddish-brown, often paler at the margin.

Adnate to slightly decurrent.

Cylindrical, slender, velvety to the touch, dark brown to nearly black at the base, transitioning to yellowish or pale near the cap, hollow

Spore print white

Saprobic, found growing in clusters on decaying hardwoods, elm, willow, and poplar, late autumn through winter, appearing during freezing conditions

Edible and highly prized, with a pleasant taste, especially in cultivated forms (enoki)

Fruit body cap 2–10 cm in diameter, stipe 3–10 cm long and 2–6 mm thick

KOH red to brownish red on cap surface

Odour slightly sweet

Taste pleasant

Spores subcylindric to elongated-ellipsoid, smooth, 5–10 x 2.5–3.5 µm, hyaline in KOH, inamyloid, basidia 25–28 x 3–4 µm, subclavate, 4-sterigmate

Cold-loving, clustered mushroom with a sticky, orange-brown cap and dark velvety stipe

1951). Lilloa 22: 307 (’1949′).

Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Eesti

Urban park, on Salix sp. old tree stump

59°26'31.7"N 24°47'49.9"E

🔆 Dusk, partial darkness, open spot