pholiota

1. Genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus;
   Grows on open ground or decaying wood (synset 113028530)
   is a type of: fungus genus - includes lichen genera
   member holonym:

   • pholiota astragalina - a fungus with a smooth orange cap and yellow gills and pale yellow stalk
   • golden pholiota, pholiota aurea - a beautiful yellow gilled fungus found from Alaska south along the coast
   • pholiota destruens - a large fungus with whitish scales on the cap and remnants of the veil hanging from the cap; the stalk is thick and hard
   • pholiota flammans - a fungus with a yellow cap covered with fine scales as is the stalk
   • pholiota flavida - a fungus that grows in clusters on the ground; cap is brownish orange with a surface that is smooth and slightly sticky; whitish gills and a cylindrical brown stalk
   • nameko, pholiota nameko, viscid mushroom - one of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan
   • pholiota squarrosa-adiposa - a gilled fungus having yellow slimy caps with conspicuous tawny scales on the caps and stalks
   • pholiota squarrosa, scaly pholiota - a gilled fungus with a cap and stalk that are conspicuously scaly with upright scales; gills develop a greenish tinge with age
   • pholiota squarrosoides - a pale buff fungus with tawny scales
   belongs to: family strophariaceae, strophariaceae - sometimes included in family Agaricaceae
   same as: genus pholiota

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