Gilled Mushrooms with a ring on the stalk, growing on wood.
Normally the mushrooms grouped here are conspicuously growing on wood. However, they can sometimes appear to be growing on soil or humus if the woody substrate is extensively decomposed or buried. The stalk ring is formed from a partial veil that extends from the cap margin to the stalk on young specimens. As the cap expands, the veil typically separates from the cap margin bur remains attached to the stalk as a well-defined membranous collar or skirt-like ring. Species that merely have a zone of appressed fibrils on the stalk are placed in other sections.
Common Name: Honey Mushroom; Bootlace Fungus
Easily Confused with Deadly Galerina. BE CAREFUL
Width of cap: 1 1/2- 4 in
Cap: Convex at first, becoming broadly convex to nearly flat; pale yellow-brown to honey colored with olivaceous tones, darker in the center; surface viscid when wet, nearly glabrous or with fine yellowish brown scales, especially concentrated on the disc; Flesh white, thick at the center,
Gills: Broadly attached or somewhat decurrent; white becoming pinkish buff and spotted brownish with age
Stalk: More or less equal but often tapered and sometimes compressed near the base, whitish at first, soon becoming olivaceaous or brownish; fibrous and tough; surface floccose to scurfy; partial veil thick and cottony, leaving a membranous white ring on the upper stalk, ring often has a yellow margin
Spore Print: White to cream
Occurrence: In caespitose clusters on decaying wood of broad-leaved trees, or on the ground from buried wood, especially around old stumps, less often growing on conifer wood; summer-fall, occasionally appearing in spring; common
Edibility: POISONOUS RAW but EDIBLE and very good when WELL COOKED.
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