Sulphur tuft
Hypholoma fasciculare
The sulphur tuft is a poisonous mushroom with a sulphur-yellow cap that grows in large clumps on stumps and dead roots. Its gills start yellow and turn greenish, and its spore print is purple-brown. It tastes very bitter. Eating it causes vomiting, diarrhoea and convulsions.
Where it's found
Dead wood of broadleaf and conifer trees, most often rotting broadleaf stumps, from spring to autumn.
Distribution
Widespread and abundant in northern Europe and North America; recorded from Iran and eastern Anatolia in Turkey.
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