This is rare. Abney seems to be the world center for the species. It was pointed out to me that if a mycologist saw a couple of caps of this in a lifetime that would be it. In Abney it has grown on different pieces of soggy dead wood in different parts of the cemetery, about a dozen times so far this year. It doesn’t last long, however. The squirrels eat it, but only the gills, then the rest of the cap is pelted down from the branches where they have taken it to munch.
One man in Abney tried it for possible psychedelic properties because its colour looked as if it might be interesting. It wasn’t. He was unwell for a week after very few sample caps were eaten. In my books that include P. aurantiorugosus, the edibility is something they don’t really comment on, and at best it is question marked. I think this experimental testing suggests not edible.
I have followed this cap as it seems out of the way of the squirrels. And something else has now got to it and knocked the edge off. It does show the typical shape and progress, from a bell shape to flat, with the vivid and almost glowing orange cap surface and slightly yellow stalk.
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The cap surface is finely, radially wrinkled……………………………………………………………………………… (Link to species notes).
I live in the south of England and there is a wood neare we live that has hundreds of these growing in it.
Maybe they are locally common. Abney is dense woodland with a lot of broad leaved wood around. There are sheltered areas where the moiosture stays long after most of the wood has dried, and rotting wood is the last habitat to dry out.