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Sulphur Tuft

Hypholoma fasciculare

Photo by Leuba Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

A clump of mushrooms with caps about 35 mm wide. The caps were a pale yellowish orange with cream margins. Some caps had prominent umbos. Gills were crowded, cream coloured and appeared "dirty" with dark spores. Some of the caps showed a greenish yellow stain on the underside including the stipe. The stipe had a delicate annulus stained with dark spores (pic #3). bases of stipes were a dark brown with white "fur".

Habitat:

Spotted growing on a damp decaying log , half buried in grass, beside a lake.
Distribution:
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Sulphur+Tuft

Notes:

A poisonous mushroom

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