Bright Yellow Mushroom Florida

A large bright yellow capped mushroom with a heavy stem is growing from a live oak area.

Bright yellow mushroom florida. 7 hen of the wood ram s head sheep s head signorina or maitake grifola frondosa range. Fruit bodies of leucocoprinus birnbaumii are agaricoid mushroom shaped and occur singly or in small clumps. Pluck the mushroom from the ground turn it over and run the tip of a pocketknife perpendicular to its fluted gills or ridges close to the mushroom s stalk. The best way to identify a florida mushroom you can eat is to start with the indigo milk cap lactarius indigo which is a blue mushroom species.

The cap is also textured with scales or dots. This is a perennial mushroom that often grows in the same place year after year but. Up north it would compare to what we called an incredulous edulous. Bright to pale yellow in color throughout including the inner flesh.

This color fades out to a very pale yellow almost white as the cap expands to release the spores. The cap surface is smooth but dotted with fine easily. It is of the bolete variety with a mycelium on a surface root. All parts are bright pale sulphur yellow but fade with age.

You ll notice from the picture on the left that the mushrooms start out as a very bright yellow color. Late summer to early autumn after rain. When young the cap is usually taller than broad later becoming convex and around 20 60 mm 1 2 5 in across. Cap is a 1 2 inches tall and oval when young becoming more bell shaped with age.

This is a gilled mushroom although the gills do not attach to the stem.