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Sulphur tuft

Hypholoma fasciculare · Brimstone caps (Hypholoma)

Poisonous
Sulphur tuft
📷 Reinhold Möller Ermell, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Poisonous. Causes violent gastrointestinal poisoning.

Recognise it safely – what matters

  1. Greenish gills – no edible species in such clusters has green gills
  2. Sulphur yellow colour, inside as well
  3. Often grows next to sheathed woodtuft and honey fungus

Features

Cap
2–7 cm, sulphur yellow, centre orange-brownish.
Underside
Gills: sulphur yellow when young, then greenish, olive-black when old.
Stem
Yellow, thin, fused in clusters; faint ring zone.
Flesh
Yellow, very bitter.
Smell
Indistinct
Spore print
Purple brown

Season

Habitat

In dense clusters on stumps and dead wood of broadleaf and coniferous trees, almost all year, most common in autumn.

Rødgran, Fyr, Bøg, Eg, andre træarter

Risk of confusion

Almindelig svovlhat Edible species Sheathed woodtufts have brown gills, a honey-brown cap and a scaly stem – never green gills.

If someone has eaten it

Violent vomiting, diarrhoea and stomach cramps; in children and older people the loss of fluids can become dangerous. First symptoms: usually 1–4 hours after eating.

Act immediately – even without symptoms:

  • Emergency number 112 if someone feels unwell.
  • Poison centre: Germany – area code of the nearest city with a poison centre + 19240 (e.g. Berlin 030 19240, Munich 089 19240) · Austria +43 1 406 43 43 · Switzerland 145.
  • Keep leftovers, trimmings or vomit – it helps with identification.

Never identify mushrooms by pictures or an app alone. When in doubt, ask a mushroom expert – and only pick what you know for sure.

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