velvet foot

Description:

--The fruiting bodies are 2-10 cm wide, and greasy hats dünnfleischige of honey-yellow to reddish-brown color with a darker center. --The fibrous, tough, hollow in age, ringless stems are 3-8 cm long, yellowish above, below dark brown to olivschwarz, samtfilzig, often flattened and narrowed root-like. Characteristic is the twisted structure of the stalk fibers. --The fins are white to pale yellow. --The spore powder is white

Habitat:

geographic distribution includes both temperate and cold regions in the northern hemisphere, such as China, Siberia, Asia Minor, Europe, North America and Japan and Australia in the Southern Hemisphere

Notes:

The common Velvet Foot (Flammulina velutipes, syn. Collybia velutipes) is an edible mushroom that is cultivated in East Asia and marketed as Enoki. In natural habitats, the small, frost-resistant fruit bodies grow during the winter months at cool temperatures, which is why it is also called "winter-mushroom". It is commonly named, because of the stem-appearence: Flammulina velutipes also called golden needle mushroom. Wild forms differing in color, texture, and sliminess are called winter mushrooms, velvet foot, or velvet stem among other names