Sign in Start free
Species library › Pholiota › Pholiota aurivella
Fungi Partly documented

Pholiota aurivella

Golden pholiota

A large, slimy golden-capped Pholiota with flattened dark scales that fruits in clusters high on living or dead hardwood trunks. It fruits in late summer and autumn across the northern temperate zone. It is not recommended as food.

Pholiota aurivella
Photo: I. G. Safonov (IGSafonov), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Very humid airBand in Plantistry
Light ShadeDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest period

Where it grows wild

Clustered on living and dead trunks and stumps of broadleaf trees in native forest, often well above ground from wounds.

Recorded elevations 20–3845 m, median 660 m (28 records); mostly lowland to montane forest.

EuropeNorth AmericaTemperate AsiaAustralasia

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

Grow Pholiota aurivella? Add it to a free garden and its full profile opens. Pro opens all 38,374 profiles in the library, plants and fungi.

Start free Sign in

More Pholiota

Pholiota flammans Pholiota nubigena Pholiota squarrosa Pholiota adiposa Pholiota multicingulata Pholiota subflammans Pholiota communis Pholiota iterata Pholiota squarrosoides Pholiota gummosa Pholiota brunnescens Pholiota glutinosa All 383 →

Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.