A Scaly Closeup.

''Pholiota flammans'', commonly known as the yellow pholiota, the flaming Pholiota, or the flame scalecap, is a basidiomycete agaric mushroom of the genus ''Pholiota''. Its fruit body is golden-yellow in color throughout, while its cap and stem are covered in sharp scales. As it is a saprobic fungus, the fruit bodies typically appear in clusters on the stumps of dead coniferous trees. ''P. flammans'' is distributed throughout Europe, North America, and Asia in boreal and temperate regions. Its.. more