Sulphur tuft

Description:

Cap Sulphur yellow, often tan towards the centre of the cap; convex or slightly umbonate, with dark velar remnants attached to the cap margin. 2 to 7cm in diameter. The cap flesh is sulphur yellow and quite firm. Gills The crowded adnate gills of the Sulphur Tuft are initially sulphur yellow, becoming olive-green and progressively blackening as the spores ripen. Stem Stems of Hypholoma fasciculare are more or less concolorous with the cap, but rather browner towards the base; 5 to 10 mm in diameter, usually curved with length 5 to 12cm. Spore print Purplish-brown. https://www.google.pt/url?sa=t&rct=j...

Habitat:

Sulphur Tuft is saprobic, feeding on stumps, felled trunks and other dead wood from broad-leaf trees and less commonly conifers. If you see tufts apparently growing in grass it is a certainty that buried roots or other timber and lying just beneath the soil surface. As the root systems of many broadleaf trees extend well beyond the leaf canopy, so also the Sulphur Tuft fungus can fruit quite a long way from the trunk of the decaying tree on which its mycellium is feeding. Very common in Britain and Ireland, Hypholoma fasciculare occurs also across most of mainland Europe, where it is most prevalent in northern and central countries. This wood-rotting species is common also in North America.

Notes:

Spotted in a public garden in Porto city