Common Name: Golden Pholiota
Width of cap: 1 1/2- 5 inches
Cap:Convex to broadly convex, sometimes with a broad umbo; yellow to yellowish orange or yellow-brown ground color, at least partially covered with flattened and recurving rusty brown scales; surface viscid to glutinous when wet; margin incurved at first, often ragged with fragments of a partial veil; Flesh yellow
Gills: Adnate to adnexed, close to crowded; pale yellowish at first, becoming rusty brown to orange-brown
Stalk: Equal or tapering upward, central or eccentric; colored like the cap but usually paler, whitish above the ring; surface scaly from teh base upward to a scant, fibrous ring that often disapears with age, or is reduced to an inconspicuous annular zone near the apex.
Spore Print: Brown
Occurrence: In clusters or sometimes solitary on decaying logs, trunks, and stumps of broad-leaved and conifer trees, also on trunks of living trees, often emanating from wounds several feet up; parasitic and saprobic; fall to early wintere, less frequently in spring; common
Edibility: Not recommended. Edible according to some accounts, but there are reports of gastrointestinal disturbances from consuming this or other closely related species.
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