Hypholoma fasciculare
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 Hypholoma fasciculare Sulphur Tuft
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The Sulphur Tuft or Sulfur Tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare) is a common woodland mushroom, often in evidence when hardly any other mushrooms are to be found. This small gill fungus grows in large clumps (Latin fascicularis = in bundles, clustered) mainly on stumps, dead roots or rotting trunks of broadleaved trees, more rarely on conifer wood.
It is inedible; consuming it can cause vomiting and diarrhoea.
Synonym: Nematoloma fasciculare or Naematoloma fasciculare - see Hypholoma. Another English name is Clustered Woodlover.
[edit] Description
- Cap: Smooth, sulphur yellow with an orange-brown centre, up to about 6 cm diameter.
- Gills: Crowded, then later a distinctive green colour which results from the blackish spores on the yellow flesh.
- Spore powder: Purple brown.
- Stipe: Up to 10 cm long and hardly 1 cm wide, light yellow, orange-brown below, often with an indistinct ring zone coloured dark by the spores.
- Taste: Very bitter (do not swallow) as raw. Not bitter when cooked, but still poisonous.
[edit] References
- Mostly taken from the German page.
- See also Index Fungorum.
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