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a mushroom that fruits in frozen winter while everything else has the sense to quit
means A small edible mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) with a sticky orange-brown cap and a dark, finely fuzzy stalk, notable for fruiting on dead wood in cold weather, even through frost and snow.
from A plainly descriptive English name: "velvet" for the dark, downy texture of its lower stem, and "shank" — an old Germanic word for the leg or shin, related to the same root that gives us the cut of meat — applied here to the mushroom's stalk. The cultivated, blanched form is better known by its Japanese name, enokitake.
- cold lover
- Fruits from autumn into deep winter, even after frost
- prized in Japan
- Cultivated as enoki, sold pale and stringy
- velvet stem
- Dark fuzzy lower stalk gives the common name
- deadly twin
- Resembles fatal Galerina, killing careless foragers
- antifreeze trick
- Survives freezing thanks to natural cryoprotectant proteins
velvet shank mushroom — fungus (flammulina velutipes) found on dead hardwood trees worldwide, edible and cultivated in asia
the velvet shank — british pub in shoreditch, london, established as a bohemian drinking spot in the 1960s