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Velvet FootFlammulina velutipes

edible

Velvet FootFlammulina velutipes

Photo: (c) Matej Frančeškin, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Habitat

deciduous forests

parks, treelines

Season

from October to April

Physalacriaceae

2–10 cm

Season

Starting soonStarts in about 7 days. The peak is usually from mid-December.

Today · 29 Oct–4 Novout of season

how often reportedpeak

Season

Oct–Apr

Peak

Dec–Jan

Reports

1110Poland and neighbours

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Funeral Bell grows at the same time

Both species grow together for about 6 wk a year.

Curve from 1110 observations (GBIF: Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Germany), smoothed week by week. It shows when foragers most often report the species, not how much of it grows.

Key features

Cap orange-brown, slimy and sticky even after frost, paler toward the margin. Gills cream, distant; stem velvety, black-brown toward the base, without a ring. Grows in clusters on trunks and stumps of deciduous trees from late autumn to spring and resumes growth after a thaw.

Similar (be careful)Confusions documented in our database

Funeral BellGalerina marginata

deadly

The Velvet Foot has a velvety stem, black-brown toward the base and WITHOUT a ring, and cream gills. The Funeral Bell (amanitins, deadly) has a smooth stem with a narrow ring and gills rusty from spores. Lining under the cap: rusty dust = set it aside.

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