This is a common and beautiful mushroom and found in many places around the Barff.  It is easily recognized by the yellow-brown caps, clustered fruiting habit, deliquescing gills, and fine, mica-like granules that adorn the fresh caps (though rain will frequently wash the granules away). Depending on their stage of development mushroom caps may range in shape from oval to bell-shaped to convex. Grows on stumps or roots of dead trees. The roots are buried, so it appears to be growing on the grass. Although it can grow at any time of the year, it is more prevalent during the spring and autumn, coinciding with the higher humidity resulting from spring and autumn rains. Visible on the Barff from April to the end of September.