04/Oct/2025, 10:33 AM
Kadrioru park, Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban park, on living old willow (Salix sp.) tree, near trunk base
59°26'33.3"N 24°47'45.3"E
🌡️ 5°C ⛅ Scattered clouds 💨 Wind 130° SE->NW, 11 km/h
Original Instagram postPholiota squarrosa
shaggy scalycap
- Scientific identification
- Pholiota squarrosa (Vahl) P.Kumm.
- Family
- Strophariaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Pholiota
Names across languages
- English: shaggy scalycap
- German: Sparriger Schüppling
- Finnish: Pörhösuomuhelokka
- Estonian: Soomusmampel
- Russian: Чешуйчатка обыкновенная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-10-04.
Hymenium
Gills, close to crowded, whitish to yellowish when young, becoming greenish-yellow then cinnamon-brown
Cap
convex to broadly convex, surface dry, yellow-ochre underneath buff to tawny, overlaid with upturned, coarse, brownish, recurved scales
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to sinuate (not strongly decurrent)
Stipe
cylindrical, dry, yellowish and covered in tawny scales below the ring zone; bears a persistent woolly or fibrous ring formed from the partial veil
Spore print
Spore print cinnamon-rusty-brown
Ecology
Saprobic, opportunistically parasitic, clusters on living (weakened) or decaying wood, at tree bases, summer to late autumn
Edibility
Not recommended, sever cases of poisoning (with alcohol)
Fruit body
Fruit body medium, stipe 4–12 cm long, ~1.5 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap 3–12 cm diameter
Flesh
Flesh is white to pale yellow, no staining
Chemical reactions
Spores reddish-brown in KOH
Odour
Faint, radish or skunk-like
Taste
Unpleasant, radish-like
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid, smooth, ~6–8×4–5 µm, distinct apical pore, pleurocystidia clavate to subfusiform, ~45×14 µm, cheilocystidia subfusiform to fusoid-ventricose, ~43×15 µm
Overview
Wood-decaying, scaly, medium-sized cluster mushroom with a dry, coarse-scaled cap and stem
1871). Führ. Pilzk. (Zerbst): 83.
Field encounters
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