I have loved mushrooms since childhood, and I have also been a programmer for a long time. Combining these two hobbies, I wrote this website. Previously, I had two other mushroom identification sites, which I sold. Only one of them remains accessible today. My goal with the current site is to create an easy-to-use search and identification platform that works great both in the field and at home. I hope it brings joy to others.
Bartha László
Species flashcards
Practice area: created for the 303-species Hungarian mushroom inspector requirement. It is not an official examination; requirements in other countries may differ.
Spectacular Rustgill
Gymnopilus junonius
not edible
- Habitat: deciduous coniferous stump
- Fruiting season: July – October
- Cap: convex flat scaly fibrous infolded
- Stem: tapering ventricose club-shaped
- Fertile layer: adnate tooth dense smooth
Description
Cap: 8-20 cm in diameter; convex when young, then flattening, its margin infolded for a long time; golden yellow, orange-yellow, ochre-brown, reddish-brown; surface radially fibrous or finely scaly, slightly sticky when young, then becoming dry.
Gills: Broadly or small tooth-adnate to the stem, close, narrow; yellow when young, becoming bright rust-yellow with age.
Stem: 8-20 cm long, 1.5-5 cm thick; slightly club-shaped; ventricose, its base often tapering, rooting, often clustered; its surface is powdery above the membranous ring, fibrous, scaly below; golden yellow.
Flesh: Thick in the cap, soft, fibrous, stringy in the stem; yellow; weakly sourish smell, bitter taste.
Spore: Rust-brown; 8-10 x 5-6μm; almond-shaped.
Occurrence: From July to October; in deciduous and coniferous forests, at the base of trees or on stumps, not common species.
Edibility: Not edible.
Confusion: Can be confused with the strongly decurrent-gilled, funnel-capped, ringless, poisonous jack o'lantern.
Note: The prefix gymn- means: bare, naked; and the suffix -pilus: cap - so the meaning is bare cap. junonius refers to the Roman goddess Juno, who was statuesquely beautiful, but also depicted as a warlike woman. The goddess of birth and marriage. The month of June is also named after Juno.
Species description: In 1821, the famous Swedish Elias Magnus Fries described it and gave it the name Agaricus junonius. It was placed in the current genus in 1960 by the British Peter Darbishire Orton (1916-2005). Earlier, in 1879, the Finnish Petter Adolf Karsten (1834-1917) had already proposed the new genus name for the mushroom.
Taxonomy
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderAgaricales
- FamilyStrophariaceae
- GenusGymnopilus
- Species: junonius
- Described by: (Fr.) P.D. Orton
- Hungarian name: aranysárga tőkegomba
- Lifestyle: wood saprotroph, necrotrophic parasite
- Edibility: not edible
