A small, fragile, bright salmon-orange Entoloma with a conical cap and a long, thin, hollow stem, usually found in moss under conifers or on mossy conifer logs. Its square (cuboid) spores are distinctive under the microscope. It is the salmon-colored counterpart of the yellow Entoloma murrayi.
Not edible. Its edibility is unknown, and mushroom authorities caution against eating it because many Entoloma species cause gastrointestinal poisoning and some (for example E. rhodopolium) contain muscarine.
Never eat a wild mushroom based on a web page — confirm with an expert.
Habitat
Help build this page
This page grows with the community. Here is what it is still missing:
Photos. None yet — moderators review each photo before it appears.Sign in to add a photo
Sightings. Spotted it in the wild? Add it to the map.Open the map
Strains. No public strains of this species on WeMush yet.
Track Your Own Unicorn Mushroom Grows
Join WeMush to log cultivation data, discover strains, and connect with fellow growers.
Saprobic; alone or scattered in moss under conifers and on mossy, rotting conifer logs, occasionally in leaf litter under hardwoods. Summer and fall.
Distribution
Eastern North America, including the Midwest. Wikipedia also lists records from Africa, Asia and Europe under this name; whether all of these are the same species is not addressed in the sources consulted.
Characteristics
Cap: 1-3 cm, conical to bell-shaped, often with a pointed center; bald, sticky when fresh; bright salmon orange, fading to orangish or dingy yellowish, sometimes with greenish or olive spots. Gills: narrowly attached, distant, colored like the cap, becoming pinkish. Stem: 4-10 cm long, about 2 mm thick, hollow, fragile, colored like the cap or tinged greenish. Spore print: pink. Spores: cuboid, smooth, 8-10 um (MushroomExpert).
