Brick Tuft

Hypholoma sublateritium

On dead deciduous wood. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 3–10 (12) cm across, surface smooth, yellowish-red, the margin paler, with a conspicuous yellowish-greyish concentric rim of fibrils. Young gills greyish-cream, old ones dark greenish-brown, adnate. Stem yellowish-brown, without a ring, woody, 3-10 cm long and up to 1.3 cm thick. Flesh yellowish, firm, bitter-tasting, smelling of wood. Characteristic features: cap brick-red, margin paler, with a fairly conspicuous concentric rim of greyish-yellow fibrils. Grows in groups on dead deciduous wood – windfalls, snags, stumps. Fairly common. According to some authors it is edible, according to others inedible. Not recommended.