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Flammulina velutipes

 

The lovely orange-brown caps of Flammulina velutipes continue fruiting through the winter. Commonly known as Velvet Shank, this is a stump-rotting fungus; it also occurs on standing dead wood.

Gills

Like most members of the Tricholomataceae, this mushroom has whitish gills and releases white spores.

The caps are edible and considered by many to be very good; the stems, however, are woody and inedible.

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