Sulphur Tuft

Poisonous

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Winter

Sulphur Tuft, Hypholoma fasciculare

A very common Autumn mushroom you’ll see on every foray in the woods.

Please note that each and every mushroom you come across may vary in appearance to these photos.

Cap

Conical. Sulphur yellow paling towards the edge aging to yellow/brown. Slight remains of veil often left hanging from the edges.

Gills sulphur yellow becoming olive/green/brown and darkening. Crowded.

Sulphur yellow, darker at the base, pale towards the cap. Usually curved as the stem tends to start growing horizontally from a tree stump.

Cream to yellow.

Grows on most types of tree stumps in large clusters.

With the dirty olive coloured gills it is an easy to identify mushroom.

Purple/brown. Ellipsoid. You should scrape your spores into a small pile to get an accurate spore colour.

Very bitter.

Very common.