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Pholiota squarrosoides

Sharp-scaly Pholiota

Family Strophariaceae


Potentially Edible
Sticky, ochre cap with pointed, dry scales, brown gills and ring on scaly dry stalk.

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Description

Cap: 2.5-10 cm (1-4") wide. Sticky, blunt, becoming convex with knob or nearly flat. Margin with veil remnants. Dry, down curled or pointed orange-brown scales


Gills: Close, narrow, adnate, yellow.

Stalk: Firm, solid, cylinderic, scaly, dry. Off-white.

Spore print: Brown.

Cluster and Cap (Limor Weizmann Peru, MA))
Cluster and Cap



Stalk (Limor Weizmann Peru, MA)
Stalk



Habitat and Range

Clustered on decaying wood. Throughout North America.

Season

September-November
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