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Grzybiarz is a mobile app for mushroom foragers. Its on-device AI helps you spot fruiting bodies in the leaf litter and suggests a species from a photo, and the app keeps a private map of your finds. Everything runs on your phone and works fully offline in the forest without signal.

Velvet-footed TapTapinella atrotomentosa

inedible

Velvet-footed TapTapinella atrotomentosa

Photo: (c) Elizabeth Axley, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Habitat

under pines

under spruce

Season

from July to October

Tapinellaceae

5–25 cm

Season

Out of seasonOut of season. It usually grows from mid-July to mid-October.

Today · 22–28 Octout of season

how often reportedpeak

Season

Jul–Oct

Peak

Aug–Sep

Reports

291from Poland

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Brown Roll-Rim grows at the same time

Both species grow together for about 11 wk a year. Most strongly from early September to early September.

Curve from 291 observations (iNaturalist, Poland), smoothed week by week. It shows when foragers most often report the species, not how much of it grows.

Key features

Cap large, fleshy, brown-ochre, felty, with an inrolled margin. Characteristic stem: short, off-center, covered with a thick, dark brown to black velvety coating; gills cream, crowded, decurrent, browning. Grows only on stumps of conifers.

Similar (be careful)Confusions documented in our database

Brown Roll-RimPaxillus involutus

deadly

The Velvet-footed Tap has a dark velvety stem and grows on conifer stumps; it is inedible. The Brown Roll-Rim grows in soil under trees and is TOXIC (hemolytic anemia). Discard both.

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