Gymnopilus picreus

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2023-09-14.

Gills, crowded to moderately spaced, pale yellow to golden-yellow, becoming rust-brown with spore maturation

Convex to flat, surface smooth, orange-brown to reddish-brown, fading to a paler shade with age, margin initially inrolled, later straight

Adnexed to adnate

Slender, cylindrical, orange to reddish-brown, darker towards the base, surface smooth or faintly fibrillose

Spore print rusty orange-brown

Saprobic, growing on decaying wood, logs, or stumps of deciduous and coniferous trees, solitary or in small clusters, late summer to autumn

Inedible, potentially toxic

Fruit body small to medium-sized, stipe 3–8 cm long, 0.3–0.8 cm thick

Cap 2–6 cm in diameter

KOH reddish-brown on cap surface

Odour mildly earthy

Taste bitter

Spores ellipsoid, roughened, dextrinoid, 7–9 x 4–5 µm, rusty orange-brown in KOH, basidia clavate, 4-spored

Orange-brown mushroom with a bitter taste

1879). Bidr. Känn. Finl. Nat. Folk 32: 400.

Raudoja, Harjumaa, Eesti

Mixed forest spruce-pine part, on old log wood

59°22'39.5"N 25°29'17.0"E

🔆 Overcast, deep forest shade