Slender Pholiota
This species, while found sometimes in forests on decaying logs or stumps, is much more apt to be encountered growing on woodchips in urban settings in the PNW, where it often grows prolifically in huge clusters. The caps are viscid to tacky and convex to plane , often with a low umbo. They are yellow-brown with an ochraceous disc. Caps are smooth but may have a streaked appressed-firillose appearance. There is a thin cobwebby veil that may leave velar material at the margins when young, and sometimes leaves a silky evanescent band on the stipe. Gills are narrow, subdistant, and range from adnexed to adnate to subdecurrent. Short gills are numerous. Gills are greenish yellow at first, becoming beige and eventually brown. They drop a brown spore deposit. Stipes are up to 10 cm but usually in the 3-6 cm range, and up to 0.5 cm thick. They are amooth, equal, cylindrical and dry. They make be straight or flexuous and they become hollow with age. Stalks are concolorous with caps, but develop brownish stains below if bruised and become dingy brownish orange in age. There is no odor and the taste is mild, but they are not considered edible.