Flammulina velutipes    (Curtis:Fr.) P.Karst. 

common name(s) : Velvet Shank, Velvet Foot 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Physalacriaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Dermolomataceae  

synonyms: Collybia velutipes, Flammulina velutipes-velutipes 

edibility : edible

photo gallery of  Flammulina velutipes
photo gallery of  Flammulina velutipes potential confusions with  Flammulina velutipes toxicity of Flammulina velutipes genus Flammulina  

The cap is tawny-yellow, darker at the centre; its margin is striate when moist. The cap surface is smooth, viscid or sticky.

The stem is yellow at the top, dark brown to black towards base, velvety, without ring.

The flesh is whitish to pale yellow, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is pleasant; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are creamy white then salmon pink, adnate, distant . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic, sometimes parasitic. It grows on wood, sometimes still alive, in tufts, in broad-leaved woods, mostly on elm, beech, willow, also on ash, alder, elder, poplar.

The fruiting period takes place from September to March.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 1 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 13 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 6 mm (between 2 and 10 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Tawny yellow cap, with darker centre and paler margin; Surface of cap smooth then viscid; Stem often off-centre, black, with a velvety base; winter species

Flammulina velutipes is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Flammulina velutipes in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Flammulina velutipes in the forest of Rambouillet



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