Flammulina velutipes. This small to medium sized saprobic fungus fruits in dense clusters during winter on both exotic and indigenous fallen or standing wood. Has a sticky pale yellow to rosy-orange brown cap darker in the centae; with a distinctively velvety stem that darkens from the base upward; without a ring and having attached, close gills. Common name: Velvet foot; Winter mushroom. Podocarp forest. Riccarton, Canterbury, New Zealand. Credit: BSpragg

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Location: New Zealand, Canterbury, Riccarton
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