Growing scattered in moist oak, birch, hemlock, red maple forest. Caps 4-6 cm, viscid, golden yellow with a few darker fibrils, doesn't bruise. Cap flesh pale yellow, turning pale orange upon exposure. Stipe 4-5 cm x 1 cm thick, yellowish but with dark punctae scattered along the scruffy surface, reticulate at apex. Does not bruise. Pores angular, radially arranged, 1-2/mm, golden yellow, unbruising or only slightly pale brown. KOH on cap blueish, on cap flesh blue. Ammonia purple surrounded by red on cap, purplish on cap flesh.