Flammulina velutipes (Curtis) Singer 1951

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Broadleaved trees and shrubs

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Ulmus
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Acer pseudoplatanus
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Fraxinus
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Ulex europaeus
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Betula

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Castanea sativa

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Crataegus monogyna

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Euonymus europaeus
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Fagus
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Hedera helix
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Ilex aquifolium
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Laburnum anagyroides

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Lavatera arborea
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Malus
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Populus tremula
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Salix
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Sambucus nigra
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Tilia
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Cytisus scoparius
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Pittosporum
Remarks: season: mainly winter

Foodplant / saprobe
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes is saprobic on dead wood of Elaeagnus

Foodplant / parasite
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes parasitises moribund wood of Ribes rubrum
Other: minor host/prey

In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / parasite
fruitbody of Flammulina velutipes var. velutipes parasitises moribund stem of Ribes

Gymnopus velutipes (Curt.) Murrill
Agaricus velutipes Curt. Fl. Lond. fasc. 4: pi. 42. 1777-87. Collybia velutipes Qu61. Champ. Jura Vosg. 59. 1872.
Pileus fleshy, rather thin, convex or nearly plane, obtuse, commonly cespitose, 2.5-5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, viscid, reddish-yellow or tawny, sometimes yeljow on the margin and brownish on the disk, margin often wavy or irregular, thin: lamellae broad, subdistant, rounded behind, slightly adnexed, whitish or yellowish: spores narrowly ellipsoid or oblongellipsoid, 7.5-9 X 4 ju: stipe firm, externally cartilaginous, brown or tawny-brown, paler above, densely velvety-hairy, stuffed or hollow, 2.5-5 cm. long, 2-6 mm. thick.
Type locawty: England.
Habitat: On decaying wood and at the base of trunks of elm, willow, and other deciduous trees.
Distribution: Eastern United States to Iowa and Kansas; Oregon; Orizaba and the Tepeite Valley in Mexico; also in Europe.
IiXUSTRATiONs : Ann. !Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 51: pi. 50, f. 14, 15; Bull. U. S. Dept. Agric. 17S: pi. 15, f. 3; Curt. Fl. Lond. fasc. 4: pi. 42; Hard, Mushrooms/. 88; Hussey, TU. Brit. Myc. 1: pi. 56; Lloyd, Myc. Notes 5: 41,/. 13; Mem. N. Y. State Mus. 3: pi. 47, f. 10-15: Mycologia I: pi. 3,f. 6; Sow. Engl. Fungi pi. 384.

Flammulina velutipes is a species of gilled mushroom in the family Physalacriaceae. In the UK, it has been given the recommended English name of velvet shank. The species occurs in Europe and North America. Until recently Flammulina velutipes was considered to be conspecific with the Asian Flammulina filiformis, cultivated for food as "enokitake" or "golden needle mushroom", but DNA sequencing has shown that the two are distinct.