Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Yellow Shield

Facts
Common Name: 
Yellow Shield
Scientific Name: 
Pluteus chrysophaeus
Cap Diameter (mm): 
20-40mm
Stem Height (mm): 
20-40mm
Information
Description: 

A smallish fungus with a yellow cap, found growing on rotten wood in deciduous woodland, usually with Beech or Elm.

Distribution: 

Infrequent, from Summer until Autumn.

Habitat: 

In broadleaf woodland usuallyon dead or dying Elm or Beech trees.

Cap: 

Covex, chrome-yellow, flattening with age and becoming yellowish-brown and darker towards the centre, sulcate at the margin, smooth and not viscid.

Flesh: 

Yellowish in the cap and the base of the stem, white elsewhere, taste and odour not distinctie.

Gills: 

Broad, free and close, ochraceous when young, becoming tinged pink with age.

Spores: 

Pink spore print.

Stem: 

Slender, smootn, more or less equal, ring absent, yellowish ochre in colour.

Additional Notes: 

2nd image shows growing with Pluteus hispidulus