Flammulina velutipes - The hat reaches from 10 to 120 mm in diameter; has a honey, orange-yellow, red-yellow, chestnut, rusty color with a darker center; young fruiting bodies have a hemispherical shape, which with age becomes spread, and in old fruiting bodies hats are bent; it is slippery and sticky, especially in the rain; the surface is smooth, shiny; margin sharp, translucent, lighter than the center of the cap; sporocarps grow tile-like on top of each other.

Lamellae are white, cream, passing with age into ocher-yellow, are rare, rounded at the stipe and attached to it.

The stem reaches 30 to 100 mm in height and 3 to 10 mm in thickness; off-white to cream-colored in the middle, rusty yellow-brown at the base of chestnut brown or rusty brown; surface from the top smooth, below felt; solid, cylindrical; stems often rooted together.

Cream, yellowish, thin, elastic flesh; pleasant smell, almost imperceptible; mild taste.

Occurrence: typically winter frost-resistant fungus, growing even under snow on deciduous wood: willow, alder, beech. It grows from October to April.

Value: tasty edible mushroom, it is also grown on stumps, logs, straw.