Sulphur Tuft

Hypholoma fasciculare

On stumps, snags and windfalls of coniferous and deciduous trees. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3–5 cm across, growing even larger, sulphur-yellow, pale yellow, yellowish-brown in the middle, when old yellowish-greenish-brown, not fleshy. Young gills the colour of sulphur powder, old ones greenish-blackish-brown. Stem up to 10 cm long and up to 1 cm thick, the upper part sulphur-yellow, lower down the stem yellowish-brownish; not far from the cap there is a dark greyish-greenish ring-like remnant of the partial veil. Flesh yellow, bitter, with an unpleasant smell. Characteristic features: young fruiting bodies sulphur-yellow. Grows in groups, sometimes in large colonies. Poisonous. Very common. It has attracted the interest of physicians. It does not resemble honey fungi; when mature it has greenish-blackish-brown gills.