Pholiota flammans (Fungi of Northern Maine)

Pholiota flammans

Summary ⁷

Pholiota flammans, commonly known as the yellow pholiota, the flaming Pholiota, or the flame scalecap, is a basidiomycete agaric mushroom of the genus Pholiota. Its fruit body is golden-yellow in color throughout, while its cap and stem are covered in sharp scales. As it is a saprobic fungus, the fruit bodies typically appear in clusters on the stumps of dead coniferous trees. P. flammans is distributed throughout Europe, North America, and Asia in boreal and temperate regions....

Associations ⁸

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Pholiota flammans is saprobic on dead, decayed stump (large) of Pinopsida

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Pholiota flammans is saprobic on dead, decayed stump (large) of Pinus
Other: major host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Pholiota flammans is saprobic on dead, decayed stump (large) of Picea
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Pholiota flammans is saprobic on dead, decayed stump (large) of Larix
Other: minor host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Pholiota flammans is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed wood of Alnus
Other: unusual host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Pholiota flammans is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed wood of Betula
Other: unusual host/prey

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Pholiota flammans is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed wood of Broadleaved trees
Other: unusual host/prey