Enoki
Flammulina filiformis · 金针菇
Common泡头菌科🍽 Cultivated Edible
A commercially cultivated edible fungus. Buy wild specimens only through reputable, regulated sources.
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
- Wild caps yellow-brown and sticky, unlike the slender white cultivated form sold in stores
- Lower stem dark brown, densely covered in short velvety hairs
- Clusters on dead hardwood in winter, even visible in snow
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 泡头菌科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Wood
- How Big
- 2–8 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Common
- Habitat
- Cultivation bottles; wild form on dead hardwood trunks
Easily Confused With
Funeral bellWild enoki has a dark brown velvety stem, no ring and a white spore print; funeral bell has a ring and a rusty-brown spore print.
Velvet shankCap small, orange-yellow, and stickyFun Fact
The pale, slender enoki sold in supermarkets is forced to grow in the dark under high CO2; the wild form has a brown cap and a short, stubby stem.