How to identify it?
Fruiting Body
Fruiting body medium sized to large.
Cap
Cap 5-15 cm across, hemispherical, becoming convex to umbonate; yellow; surface slimy or greasy. Flesh fibrous, yellowish. Taste rather bitter.
Gills
Gills adnate, cream to ocher to brown, crowded.
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Scientific Classification
Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Gilled fungi Family
Strophariaceae Genus
Scalycaps Species
Golden pholiota