 The species is common in spruce @-@ fir and spruce @-@ moorland forests and in spruce forests and plantations . Together with spruces , the fungus is also common in different European beech and oak @-@ European hornbeam forests , but also on the forest edges , on clearings and in clearcut meadows and even on juniper heathers and in parkland . There are scarcely any habitats where the spruce is common , while the fungus is not found there . The fungus is very common in young spruce forests that are 10 to 20 years old , where it occurs on forest path edges occasionally in masses . 
