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A slimy, wood-rotting Pholiota with a cap of shifting colours: mottled olive and pinkish purple when young, becoming yellowish to orange with age. Whitish veil remnants often fringe the cap margin. It decomposes hardwood logs and slash east of the Great Plains and is somewhat more common in the south-eastern United States.
Edibility unknown; no information was found in the sources consulted. Do not eat. Some Pholiota are mildly poisonous, and small brown-spored wood mushrooms include the deadly Galerina autumnalis/marginata group.
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