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Sulphur Tuft  Hypholoma fasciculare A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source<br />
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 saprophagic small gill fungus grows prolifically in large clumps on stumps, dead roots or rotting trunks of broadleaved trees.<br />
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The &quot;Sulphur Tuft&quot; is bitter and poisonous; consuming it can cause vomiting, diarrhea and convulsions. The principal toxic constituents have been named fasciculol E and fasciculol F.<br />
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Sulphur Tuft Hypholoma fasciculare

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source
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 saprophagic small gill fungus grows prolifically in large clumps on stumps, dead roots or rotting trunks of broadleaved trees.

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.

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Uploaded Oct 12, 2012. Captured Aug 20, 2010 12:19.
  • NIKON D40
  • f/5.6
  • 1/125s
  • ISO400
  • 200mm