13/Sep/24, 2:42 PM
Väike-Rõsna, Võrumaa, Estonia
Woodland edge, in moss, on decaying pine remnants
57°58'49.9"N 27°37'27.5"E
🔆 Sun over the cloud, open spot
Original Instagram postTricholomopsis rutilans
plums and custard
- Scientific identification
- Tricholomopsis rutilans (Schaeff.) Singer
- Family
- Tricholomataceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Tricholomopsis
Names across languages
- English: plums and custard
- German: Purpurfilziger Holzritterling
- Finnish: Purppuralahovalmuska
- Estonian: Punakas puiduheinik
- Russian: Трихоломопсис жёлто-красный
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-09-13.
Hymenium
Gills, crowded, bright yellow, becoming darker with age, not staining when bruised
Cap
Convex to broadly convex, flattening with age, covered in purplish scales on a yellow background, giving a fibrous appearance, margin sometimes slightly wavy
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to slightly notched
Stipe
Cylindrical, bright yellow with reddish to purplish fibrils, fibrous texture, often hollow or slightly swollen at the base, no ring or veil
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic, on decaying conifer wood, in clusters or scattered groups, summer to autumn
Edibility
Conditionally edible mushroom of low quality, only at a young age, mature become bitter
Fruit body
Fruit body medium to large, stipe 5–10 cm long, 1–2.5 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap 5–12 cm in diameter
Chemical reactions
KOH red on cap surface, flesh yellow to pale yellow
Odour
Odour fragrant or indistinct
Taste
Taste milt to slightly radishlike
Microscopy
Spores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline in KOH, inamyloid, 3–5 x 2.5–5 µm, basidia 4-spored
Overview
Medium to large mushroom with a striking yellow cap covered in purplish scales
1939). Schweiz. Z. Pilzk. 17: 56.
Field encounters
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