Habitat
This common species typically grows on conifer debris, stumps, and rotting wood. It is occasionally found on broad-leaved wood. It grows either solitary or in tufted groups.
Photos
Appearance
- Cap
- 2 to 8 cm wide; starts convex and becomes flattened or expanded, often with a wavy or inrolled margin; color ranges from golden-yellow or pale ochre to bright rusty-orange; smooth or finely fibrous, sometimes becoming velvety or scaly with age.
- Stem
- 2.5 to 7 cm long, 4 to 10 mm thick; yellow to ochre near the top and brownish toward the base; surfaces are covered in fine white fibers with an indistinct ring zone from the veil; the base is typically covered in white downy growth.
- Gills
- Crowded and attached to the stem, often with a small decurrent tooth; golden-yellow or ochre, frequently developing reddish-brown spots as they mature.
- Flesh
- Yellowish in the cap and reddish-brown or tawny within the stem; taste is notably bitter; smell is faint, ranging from indistinct to slightly spicy or mushroom-like.
- Spore print
- Rusty-brown to red-brown.
Sporecast is better in the app
Plan ahead with 10-day forecasts, see what people are finding nearby, get photo IDs, and track your finds.
Edibility
This species has a distinctly bitter taste and is considered inedible or suspect, and should be avoided. It is very similar to Gymnopilus hybridus, which shares the same bitter flesh and an occasional spicy or scented aroma.
Misidentification can be fatal. Never eat a mushroom unless you're 100% sure. This information may be inaccurate. Always consult multiple sources.
Nutrient Source
SaprotrophicThis mushroom obtains nutrients by decomposing dead organic matter from plants such as wood or leaf litter.
Common Names
- Basque
- egur-ziza zolazuri, egur-ziza-zolazuri, egur-ziza zolazuria
- Danish
- Plettet flammehat
- Dutch
- Dennenvlamhoed
- English
- Common Rustgill
- Finnish
- kangaskarvaslakki
- French
- Pholiote pénétrante, Gymnopile pénétrant
- German
- Geflecktblättriger Flämmling
- Norwegian Bokmål
- fregnebittersopp
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- freknebittersopp
- Spanish
- gimnópilo penetrate, gimnópilo penetrante, gimnopilo penetrante
- Swedish
- fläckig bitterskivling, fläckig flamskivling
- Welsh
- Tagell Goch Gyffredin
Synonyms
- Agaricus penetrans
- Dryophila penetrans
- Flammula croceolamellata
- Flammula penetrans
- Fulvidula hybrida
- Fulvidula penetrans
- Gymnopilus hybridus
- Naucoria penetrans