30/Sep/2026, 6:19 PM
Metsalille tee, Haabneeme, Harju, Eesti
Urban city zone, grass lawn near pavement road, rooted in thick soil
59°31'32.7"N 24°48'56.8"E
🌡️ 13°C ⛅ Sunny 💨 Wind 60° ENE->WSW, 15 km/h
Original Instagram postPhaeolepiota aurea
Golden Bootleg
- Scientific identification
- Phaeolepiota aurea (Bull.) R. Maire ex Konrad & Maubl.
- Family
- Squamanitaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Phaeolepiota
Names across languages
- English: Golden Bootleg
- German: Goldfarbener Glimmerschüppling
- Finnish: Kultasieni
- Estonian: Kuldmampel
- Russian: Феолепиота золотистая
- Chinese: 🇷🇺🍲 Edible after cooking but not recommended
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-30.
Hymenium
Gills crowded; pale yellowwhen young, becoming yellow-brown with maturity
Cap
Hemispherical to convex when young, later broadly convex to nearly flat with a low umbo; dry, densely granular to finely scaly; golden-yellow; margin often fringed with veil remnants
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate, often with a short decurrent tooth
Stipe
Robust, clavate toward base; golden-ochre, densely granular below the ring, smoother and paler above; large membranous flaring ring, later pendulous and skirt-like
Spore print
Spore print pale yellow-brown to orange-buff
Ecology
Saprobic on rich humus, leaf litter, compost and disturbed nutrient-rich soil; often associated with nettles; gregarious or clustered; late summer to autumn
Edibility
Edible after cooking but not recommended
Uses & compounds
Hydrogen cyanide
Description
May accumulate high concentrations of cadmium and other heavy metals
Fruit body
Fruit body large; stipe ~10–20(–25) cm long and ~2–5 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~7–20(–30) cm
Flesh
Pale yellow to whitish, thick and firm; stipe flesh slowly darkening when cut
Chemical reactions
No macroscopic reagents reaction
Odour
Aromatic, bitter-almond-like
Taste
Mild, slightly astringent
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid, smooth to minutely ornamented, pale yellow-brown, ~10–14 × 5–6 µm, without a germ pore; basidia 4-spored; cheilocystidia absent; pleurocystidia absent or rare; clamp connections present
Overview
Massive golden granular agaric with a conspicuous skirt-like ring
1928). Icones Selectae Fungorum, 6 Texte General 6: 111.
Field encounters
Source hashtags
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