07/Mar/25, 3:06 PM
Kadriorg, Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Urban park, alder trees, on grass and wood chip remnants
59°26'29.6"N 24°47'31.8"E
🔆 Partial overcast
Original Instagram postTubaria furfuracea
scurfy twiglet
- Scientific identification
- Tubaria furfuracea (Pers.) Gillet
- Family
- Tubariaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Tubaria
Names across languages
- English: scurfy twiglet
- German: Gemeiner Trompetenschnitzling
- Finnish: Oksalaholakki
- Estonian: Talinigerik
- Russian: Тубария отрубистая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2025-03-07.
Hymenium
Short-gills frequent, pale brownish to brownish yellow at first, becoming darker brown, edges faintly whitish at maturity
Cap
Convex at first, becoming broadly convex or nearly flat, brown to cinnamon brown, fading to nearly buff, mostly bald, when fresh with whitish partial veil remnants
Hymenium Attachment
Broadly attached to the stem, close or nearly distant
Stipe
Slightly fibrillose to fibrillose-scaly, whitish to brownish, poorly defined, ephemeral ring zone but without a true ring, basal mycelium white
Spore print
Spore print brownish yellow to cinnamon brown
Ecology
Saprobic, on decaying wood, grass / leaf litter, soil in parks, woodlands and forest clearings, (mild late winter), early spring
Edibility
Considered inedible
Fruit body
Fruit body small, stipe 2–5 cm long and 1–4 mm thick
Dimensions
Cap 1–4 cm in diameter
Chemical reactions
KOH on cap surface negative or grayish
Odour
Faint mushroomy
Taste
Mushroomy and spermy
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid, smooth, 6.5–9.5 x 4–5.5 µm, inamyloid, basidia 25–35 x 4–6 µm, clavate, 4-sterigmate
Overview
Small mushroom with a finely scaly, powdery cap and slender stipe
1876). Hyménomycètes (Alençon): 538 (’1878′).
Field encounters
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