A very noticable mushroom

Is this Pholiota flammas
found 9/17/15 growing on a log
in Tryon Creek Park

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Discussion

Joe Said:
How about Pholiota aurivella and P. limonella?

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I said:
The Trudell book says that Pholiota aurivella has
dark brown or reddish brown scales
and that Pholiota flammas has yellow scales.

Arora says P. limonella has yellow edged gills.

In this specimen the scales are definitely orange-yellow
and the gill edges do not look yellow.
But who knows.

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Joe said:
Per Matchmaker (re Pholiota flammans):
"Pholiota limonella and other species of P. aurivella
group are similar but cap of Pholiota flammans is brighter yellow,
the cap surface is dry to only slightly viscid,
and scales on the stem and cap are yellow rather than rusty, cinnamon or brown."

My perception of the scale color in your photos is brownish, rather than yellow.

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Don Said: It looks like it's in the Pholiota Limonella group to me.
It is hard to get much closer to the species without microscopy I think.
P. Flammans is BRIGHT canary yellow.
Yours does not look like flammans to me.
Was it slimy at all?
It looks like it was a single mushroom. The book says that Limonella grows in clusters and is slimy.

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Dick said: Color perceptions are interesting! On my screen the scales look orange