Sulphur Tuft - Hypholoma fasciculare

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Description

A yellow-brown to sulphur yellow mushroom growing in clusters on stumps and logs.  The gills are sulphur yellow with a greenish tint, maturing to purple-black.  

Similar Species

Hypholoma capnoides (Conifer Tuft) has pale grey gills without a greenish tint.

Identification difficulty
Habitat

Stumps and logs of both deciduous and coniferous trees

When to see it

Mainly late summer and autumn.

UK Status

Widespread and abundant (Kibby, Vol. 3, 2021)

VC55 Status

Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland.

  • Lostash
    Swithland Woods
    14 September 2011
  • David Nicholls
    Martinshaw Wood
    12 November 2011
  • Mark Skevington
    Bradgate Park
    06 November 2010
    mature - faded to beige
  • Graham Calow
    Harecroft Crescent Sapcote
    30 November 2011
  • Lostash
    Swithland Woods
    18 October 2012
  • Graham Calow
    Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
    02 November 2011
  • AJ Cann
    Martinshaw
    30 September 2017
    Spore print

Leicestershire & Rutland Map

MAP KEY:

Yellow squares = NBN records (all known data)
Coloured circles = NatureSpot records: 2025+ | 2020-2024 | pre-2020

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Species profile

Species group:
Fungi
Kingdom:
Fungi
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Strophariaceae
Records on NatureSpot:
234
First record:
23/10/2004 (Nicholls, David)
Last record:
27/11/2025 (Hunt, Graham)

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  • David Nicholls
    Martinshaw Wood
    23 October 2004
  • Lostash
    Swithland Woods
    14 September 2011
  • Graham Calow
    Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
    02 November 2011
  • David Nicholls
    Martinshaw Wood
    12 November 2011
  • David Nicholls
    Narborough Bog NR
    13 October 2012
  • Lostash
    Swithland Woods
    18 October 2012
  • Lostash
    Swithland Woods
    18 October 2012
  • David Nicholls
    Cademan Wood
    04 November 2012
  • David Nicholls
    Swiuthland Wood
    11 November 2012
  • Barbara Cooper
    Clawson Hill
    11 November 2012
  • Barbara Cooper
    Clawson Hill
    11 November 2012
  • AJ Cann
    Martinshaw
    30 September 2017
    Spores with germinal pore, 800X