Flammulina velutipes
| Velvet shank | |
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| Flammulina velutipes on a tree | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Physalacriaceae |
| Genus: | Flammulina |
| Species: | F. velutipes
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| Binomial name | |
| Flammulina velutipes | |
| Synonyms | |
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Flammulina velutipes | |
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 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is convex |
 | Hymenium is adnate |
 | Stipe is bare |
 | Spore print is white |
 | Ecology is saprotrophic |
 | Edibility is choice |
Flammulina velutipes, the velvet foot, velvet stem, velvet shank or wild enoki,[1][2][3] is a species of gilled mushroom in the family Physalacriaceae. The species occurs in Europe and North America. Until recently Flammulina velutipes was considered to be conspecific with the Asian Flammulina filiformis, cultivated for food as "enokitake" or "golden needle mushroom", but DNA sequencing has shown that the two are distinct.[4]
Habitat
[edit]Velvet shank is saprotrophic especially on dead or dying elm, as well as ash, beech and oak.[5][2]
Taxonomy
[edit]The species was originally described from England by botanist William Curtis in 1782 as Agaricus velutipes. It was transferred to the genus Flammulina by Rolf Singer in 1951.
References
[edit]- ^ Holden L. (April 2022). "English names for fungi April 2022". British Mycological Society. Retrieved June 16, 2022.
- ^ a b Sisson, Liv; Vigus, Paula (2023). Fungi of Aotearoa: a curious forager's field guide. Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Books. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-76104-787-9. OCLC 1372569849.
- ^ Arora, David (1986). Mushrooms demystified: a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi (Second ed.). Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-0-89815-169-5.
- ^ Wang, Pan Meng; Liu, Xiao Bin; Dai, Yu Cheng; Horak, Egon; Steffen, Kari; Yang, Zhu L. (September 2018). "Phylogeny and species delimitation of Flammulina: taxonomic status of winter mushroom in East Asia and a new European species identified using an integrated approach". Mycological Progress. 17 (9): 1013–1030. Bibcode:2018MycPr..17.1013W. doi:10.1007/s11557-018-1409-2. S2CID 49299638.
- ^ "Flammulina velutipes, Velvet Shank mushroom". first-nature.com. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
External links
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