07/Sep/25, 3:48 PM
Kloostrimetsa soo õpperada, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Eesti
Deciduous boggy forest, on decaying mossy pine log
59°28'03.8"N 24°53'30.3"E
🌡️ 22°C 🌥️🌫️ Partly sunny, upcoming dense fog from the sea
Original Instagram postTricholomopsis decora
prunes and custard
- Scientific identification
- Tricholomopsis decora (Fr.) Singer
- Family
- Phyllotopsidaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Tricholomopsis
Names across languages
- English: prunes and custard
- German: Olivgelber Holzritterling
- Finnish: Keltalahovalmuska
- Estonian: Kuld-puiduheinik
- Russian: Трихоломопсис красивый
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-09-07.
Hymenium
Gills, close to crowded, yellow, gleaming when fresh
Cap
Convex at first, becoming broadly convex, nearly flat or shallowly depressed with uplifted margin, golden yellow background with fine grey-brown to fibrils concentrated toward the center
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate
Stipe
Cylindrical, pale yellow; smooth to faintly fibrillose, hollow in mature specimens, base with whitish basal mycelium, no ring
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic on decaying wood of conifers, alone, scattered, in groups, summer to fall
Edibility
Inedible, poor quality and bitter
Fruit body
Fruit body medium, stipe 2-5 cm long, 3-10 mm thick
Dimensions
Cap 4-10 cm diameter
Flesh
Flesh does not change much when cut
Chemical reactions
KOH on cap surface yields a red to pink or orange reaction
Odour
Indistinct
Taste
Bitter
Microscopy
Spores broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, smooth, hyaline in KOH, ~4-8×4-6 µm; inamyloid, cheilocystidia 50-62.5×10-15 µm, cylindric to subclavate
Overview
Wood-decay mushroom with a golden-yellow cap adorned with fine brown scales, yellow gills
1939). Schweiz. Z. Pilzk. 17: 56.
Field encounters
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