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Hypholoma fasciculare

 

Very variable in cap size, the Sulphur Tuft fungus, Hyphaloma fasciculare, is inedible, with a very bitter taste. This stump-rotting fungus frequently covers stumps and fallen timber.

Cap

Sulphur yellow, often tan towards the centre of the cap; convex or slightly umbonate, with dark velar remnants attached to the cap margin.

 2 to 7 cm in diameter.

The cap flesh is sulphur yellow and quite firm.

Gills

The crowded adnate gills are initially sulphur yellow, becoming olive-green and progressively blackening as the spores ripen.

Stipe

More or less concolorous with the cap, but browner towards the base; 5 to 10 mm in diameter, usually curved with length 5 to 12 cm.

Spore print

Purplish-brown.

Odour/taste

No distinctive odour, bitter taste. (Inedible, and capable of causing very unpleasant stomach upsets.)

Habitat

On stumps, felled trunks and other dead wood from conifers and from broad-leaf trees.

Season

All through the year, but most abundant from June to November.

Occurrence

Very common

Similar species

  1. Hypholoma sublaterium, the Brick Cap, is typically redder with yellow gills (rather than olive-green) that eventually become olivaceous-brown.

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