16/Jun/2026, 5:28 PM
Kadrioru park, Talinn, Harju, Eesti
Urban park, on buried wood chips from willow stump
59°26'33.2"N 24°47'45.1"E
🌡️ 18°C 🌧️ Broken clouds after the rains 💨 Wind 110° ESE->WNW, 13 km/h
Original Instagram postPluteus cervinus
deer mushroom
- Scientific identification
- Pluteus cervinus (Schaeff.) P. Kumm.
- Family
- Pluteaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Pluteus
Names across languages
- English: deer mushroom
- German: Rehbrauner Dachpilz
- Finnish: Koivulahorusokas
- Estonian: Põdranapsik
- Russian: Плютей олений
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-06-14.
Hymenium
Gills free, crowded, white at first, becoming pink to salmon-pink as spores mature
Cap
Bell-shaped to convex, later broadly convex or nearly flat; brown, darker in centre, smooth to silky, sometimes radially streaked or fibrillose
Hymenium Attachment
Free, not attached to the stipe
Stipe
Central, cylindrical, whitish to pale, with brown vertical fibrils; slightly enlarged at base; no ring
Spore print
Spore print pale pink to salmon-pink
Ecology
Saprobic on decaying wood, stumps, fallen branches, buried wood, sawdust and wood chips, on hardwood, spring to autumn
Edibility
Edible but mediocre, not highly prized
Fruit body
Fruit body medium to large, stipe ~5–12 cm long, ~0.5–2 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~4–12 cm
Flesh
White, soft, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
Flesh without KOH reaction, spores hyaline to faintly ochraceous in KOH
Odour
Indistinct, faintly earthy or radish-like
Taste
Mild, slightly bitter
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid, smooth, inamyloid, ~6–8 × 4.5–6 µm, cheilocystidia abundant, pleurocystidia thick-walled, fusiform to utriform, with 2–5 apical hooks, clamp connections absent
Overview
Wood-decaying pink-spored agaric with free gills, brown deer-coloured cap and fibrillose pale stipe
1871). Führ. Pilzk. (Zerbst): 99.
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