Sulphur Tuft

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Scientific Clasification

Kingdom: Fungi
Class:  Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Strophariaceae
Genus: Hypholoma
Species: H. fasciculare

Description

The Sulphur Tuft mushroom is also known as the Clustered woodlover. The cap is sulphur yellow, has an orange-brown center, white margin and can reach up to 6 centimeters in diameter. The gills are yellow and darken as the mushroom matures. The dark spores contribute to this change in colour. The spore print is purple brown. The stipe is light yellow in colour, orange-brown below and can grow up to 10 centimeters tall and 1 centimeters in diameter. 

Gills on Hymenium

Cap is convex

Hymenium adnate

Stipe has a ring 

Spore print is purple brown

Ecology: saprotrophic

Edibility: poisonous

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