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Choice
Lookalike Danger
3 / 5
Habitat
🪵 Dead hardwood
Season
Oct – Mar
"Cultivated enoki's wild cousin — fatter, darker, deeper-flavored. Fruits through freezing weather."
This species is found with or partners with the following hosts. Ectomycorrhizal hosts (green border) form a root-level partnership; ericoid / arbutoid shrubs (purple border) share the same mycorrhizal networks.

Fallen logs, stumps, and dying hardwood — substrate for oyster, turkey-tail, dryad’s saddle, and most hardwood saprobes.

Generic hardwood habitat — oak, maple, beech, birch, etc. Shown when the species is reported from hardwoods generally.
Wild enoki — orange-brown cap, dark velvety stem, fruits in clusters on dead hardwood. Cold-tolerant — fruits in winter when few other mushrooms do. Cultivated form (white, long-stemmed) is sold in supermarkets; wild form looks dramatically different.
Dead and dying hardwoods (especially elm, poplar, willow) across temperate North America and Europe. Late fall through early spring, after freezes.
Min Soil Temp
55°F
Moisture Need
rain 0.5in 7d
Drought Tolerance
moderate
Elevation Range
0–6,684 ft
DEADLY. Similar cluster habit. Flammulina has a WHITE spore print and tough velvety black stem; Galerina has brown spores and no velvety stem.
Dead hardwood
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