Flammulina velutipes.
This small to medium sized saprobic fungus fruits in dense clusters during winter on both exotic and indigenous fallen or standing wood. Has a sticky pale yellow to rosy-orange brown cap darker in the centae; with a distinctively velvety stem that darkens from the base upward; without a ring and having attached, close gills.

 

Common name: Velvet foot; Winter mushroom.

Found: Podocarp Forest

Substrate: Wood

Spore: WhiteHeight: 40 mm

Width: 30 mm

Season: Autumn to early winter

Edible: Yes, commercially cultivated