Hypholoma fasciculare

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iHypholoma fasciculare

Hypholoma fasciculare Sulphur Tuft

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Homobasidiomycetes
Order:	Cortinariales or Agaricales
Family:	Strophariaceae
Genus:	Hypholoma
Species:	H. fasciculare

Binomial name

Hypholoma fasciculare
(Huds.:Fr.) Kummer

Hypholoma fasciculare mycological characteristics:	?
Image:Gills icon.png gills on hymenium
Image:Convex cap icon.png cap is convex
Image:Free gills icon2.png hymenium is free
Image:Ring stipe icon.png stipe has a ring
Image:Brown spore print icon.png spore print is brown
Image:Saprophytic ecology icon.png ecology is saprophytic
Image:Poisonous toxicity icon.png edibility: poisonous

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.