06/Oct/24, 3:17 PM
Raudoja, Harjumaa, Estonia
Coniferous (spruce-pine) forest, on decaying buried hardwood
59°22'44.8"N 25°29'07.0"E
🔆 Mild overcast, open spot
Original Instagram postHypholoma capnoides
conifer tuft
- Scientific identification
- Hypholoma capnoides (Fr.) P.Kumm.
- Family
- Strophariaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Hypholoma
Names across languages
- English: conifer tuft
- German: Graublättriger Schwefelkopf
- Finnish: Kuusilahokka
- Estonian: Suits-kollanutt
- Russian: Ложноопёнок серопластинчатый
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-10-06.
Hymenium
Gills, crowded, initially pale orangish-yellow, pale grey when mature, later darker purple/brown
Cap
Convex to broadly convex, becoming slightly flattened with age, honey-yellow to orange-brown, often paler at the margin, with a smooth and slightly sticky surface
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to slightly decurrent
Stipe
Slender, cylindrical, yellowish to orange-brown, darker towards the base, fibrous, with faint remnants of a cortina or veil
Spore print
Spore print dark burgundy/brown
Ecology
Saprobic, found growing in clusters on decaying coniferous wood, especially stumps and logs, autumn
Edibility
Edible with mild taste, but can be confused with the poisonous Hypholoma fasciculare, so caution is advised
Fruit body
Fruit body medium-sized, stipe 5–10 cm long, 0.5–1.5 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap 3–7 cm in diameter
Odour
Odour mildly mushroomy, slightly sweet
Microscopy
Spores elliptical, smooth, 6–8 x 3.5–4.5 µm, basidia 4-spored
Overview
Medium-sized saprobic mushroom with a yellowish to orange-brown cap and smoky gray gills
1871). Führ. Pilzk. (Zerbst): 72.
Field encounters
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