Deer shield
Pluteus cervinus · 灰光柄菇
Common光柄菇科❓ Edibility Unknown
Edibility is unknown and should be treated as poisonous.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Cap brown, with radiating fibrils on the surface
- Gills white, turning pink, free from the stem
- Grows on rotten wood and wood chips, no ring or volva
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 光柄菇科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Wood
- How Big
- 4–12 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Common
- Habitat
- Rotting wood and wood-chip piles
Easily Confused With
Livid pinkgillDeer shield grows on rotting wood and has free gills; livid pinkgill grows on soil and has sinuate gills.Fun Fact
A pink spore print, gills that are free (not attached to the stem), and no ring or volva at all — this combination marks the Pluteus genus.
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