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
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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
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The crowded adnate gills are initially sulphur
yellow, becoming olive-green and progressively blackening as the spores
ripen. |
Stipe
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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 |
- Hypholoma sublaterium, the Brick Cap, is typically redder with
yellow gills (rather than olive-green) that eventually become olivaceous-brown.
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