Flame Shield - Pluteus aurantiorugosus
The cap is bright orange to orange-red, smooth or wrinkled. Gills free, whitish becoming pinkish or brwnish. Stem is whitish above, yellow-orange below.
Photograph from top-down, in side view, and underneath to show gills and full length of stipe; note habitat and substrate.
On decaying wood, especially Elm, but also on other species
Fruiting from early summer to late autumn, provided the weather is mild. Most often fruiting from mid-summer to mid-autumn.
Widespread but uncommon (Kibby V2, 2020)
AJ Cann
Priors Coppice
18 October 2025
davidwright
Manor Wood, Thornton
20 October 2022
davidwright
Manor Wood, Thornton
20 October 2022
Stipe tapering towards tip
CAPochin
Evington Park
09 November 2022
Trevor Davis
Oakthorpe Flashes
21 August 2022
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Species profile
- Common names
- Flame Shield
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Pluteaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 10
- First record:
- 21/08/2022 (Davis, Trevor)
- Last record:
- 18/10/2025 (Cann, Alan)
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Jane Hollingworth
CVG Quorn
12 September 2024
Melinda Bell
Shepshed,White Horse Wood
30 September 2023
cap 3.5 cm diameter
AJ Cann
Priors Coppice
18 October 2025
Groby John
Mountsorrel Heritage Centre
27 June 2024
Chris
Misterton Hall
24 September 2025
