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hypholoma fasciculare
Hypholoma fasciculare, commonly known as the sulphur tuft, sulfur tuft or clustered woodlover, is a common woodland mushroom, often in evidence when hardly any other mushrooms are to be found. This small gill fungus grows prolifically in large clumps on stumps, dead roots or rotting trunks of broadleaved trees.
Hypholoma fasciculare grows prolifically on the dead wood of both deciduous and coniferous trees. It is more commonly found on decaying deciduous wood due to the lower lignin content of this wood relative to coniferous wood. Hypholoma fasciculare is widespread and abundant in northern Europe and North America. It has been recorded from Iran, and also eastern Anatolia in Turkey. It can appear anytime from spring to autumn
The Sulphur Tuft is bitter and poisonous; consuming it can cause vomiting, diarrhea and convulsions. The principal toxic constituents have been named fasciculol E and fasciculol F
Spotted on Oct 3, 2011
Submitted on Oct 3, 2011
6 Comments
ok,sound nice,thanks. I find the fungi of other continents very intresting. i got quite a lot fungi here to see, which i had never even heard of before. I think when i travel the next time i have an other quest. But i also suspect i will not completly stop looking around for fungi.
I guess you're right; we should appreciate our cool forests for their own diversity of fungus. The Pacific Northwest might rival Germany for numbers of species. If you ever get to travel, the Olympic Peninsula is pretty prolific even now, as are the Cascade mountains before it snows. I'd like to see what pops up at the August mushroom meeting in Colorado--looks fairly good.
yes thats right, the seasons are short. I always wanted to go to warmer parts of the world. The last time, i began to appreciate the diversity of fungi, here in my average cold corner. (I'm a summer-type). So as lars said. a time ago : I live in Germany, which has the most different species of mushrooms in entire Europe with over 1000 species" . i live in dutch 5 min walking distance to the german boarder, i get the fungi from 2 countries. (belgium, is 30 min car-ride). What's promissing for me, are the (here) extraordinary fungi such as these ( http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/742... ). I canot draw (yeah fun stuff for me) i never get the proportions right. I bought myself a mircoscope, now it get started, will try this winter to use it properly. cheers
Thanks, Alex. I've been illustrating mushrooms for 35 years now--started drawing them before I photographed them. I've got over 500 done now, but am not sure what I'll do with them. The fruiting season is so short, I tend to get immersed in drawing for 2 months then nothing for the rest of the year. Would love to travel to extend the season! Costa Rica looks promising, don't you agree? But I'd also love to see the European mushrooms.
thanks shebebusynow, when it come from you i feel flattered, i have seen your work, at your spottings, not even the spottings are great i very much like your drawings i saw at some spottings. thanks
You did a good job documenting all the important parts of the mushroom with these photographs.