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Class: Basidiomycetes
Scientific name: Kuehneromyces mutabilis (Schaeff .: Fr.) Sing. Smith
Synonym: Pholiota mutabilis
Common name: Yellow family - Broche
Morphological characteristics
Hat: 3-7 cm, with variable color depending on the degree of humidity of the meat (brown-cinnamon when wet, ocher if dry), minute margin, often sinuous, sometimes with small deciduous plaques.
Gills: attached, thick, yellowish then brown-cinnamon.
Stem: 4-8 x 0.5-0.9 cm, delicate, then hollow, ferruginous brown, covered up to the scaly ring. Membranous, fleeting, concolor ring.
Meat: whitish, with a pleasant smell and a sweetish taste.
spore: ocher-brownish.
Kuehneromyces mutabilis(photo JC Schou www.biopix.eu)
Edibility, habitat and observations
Relationship with the surrounding plant environment: saprophytic mushroom.
With tufts, also extended, on stumps and dead trunks of broad-leaved trees, from spring to the first cold winters.
Good edible. It can be cultivated. It resembles the Millillaria mellea, from which it is easily distinguished by its smooth, hygrophane hat, scaly stem under the ring and the color of the lamellae and spores.
