Conifer Tuft

Hypholoma capnoides

Pine or spruce stumps, snags, windfalls. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap grows up to 7 cm across, surface smooth, yellowish-brown, orange-brown, brownish-yellow. Young gills greyish-cream, quickly violet- or bluish-grey, eventually greenish-blackish-brown. Stem 3-10x0.3-1.5 cm, yellowish near the cap, yellowish-brown lower down, without a ring. Flesh yellowish, with a pleasant smell and taste. Characteristic features: very similar to the Brick Tuft (geltonraudė), only the fruiting bodies are smaller, the cap yellowish-brown, not fibrous. Grows in smaller or larger small groups. Edible, very common. Of low value. It differs from honey fungi in its greenish-blackish-brown gills, smooth cap surface and stem without a ring.