Sulphur-yellow honeycomb (Hypholoma fasciculare)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)
- Genus: Hypholoma (Hyfoloma)
- Type: Hypholoma fasciculare (False honey fungus)
- Honey agaric sulfur-yellow
False honeysuckle sulfur-yellow (lat. Hypholoma fasciculare) is a poisonous mushroom from the genus Hypholoma of the Strophariaceae family.
Sulfur-yellow false honey agaric grows on stumps, on the ground near stumps and on rotten wood of deciduous and coniferous species. Often found in large groups.
Hat 2-7 cm in ∅, first, then, yellowish, yellow-brown, sulfur-yellow, lighter along the edge, darker or reddish-brown in the center.
Pulp or, very bitter, with an unpleasant odor.
The plates are frequent, thin, adherent to the stem, first sulfur-yellow, then greenish, black-olive. The spore powder is chocolate brown. Spores ellipsoid, smooth.
Leg up to 10 cm long, 0,3-0,5 cm ∅, smooth, hollow, fibrous, light yellow.
Spore powder:
Violet brown.
Spread:
Sulphur-yellow false honey agaric is found everywhere from the end of May to late autumn on rotting wood, on stumps and on the ground near stumps, sometimes on the trunks of living trees. It prefers deciduous species, but occasionally can also be found on conifers. As a rule, it grows in large groups.
Similar species:
The greenish color of the plates and caps makes it possible to distinguish this mushroom from most of the so-called “honey mushrooms”. Honey agaric (Hypholoma capnoides) grows on pine stumps, its plates are not greenish, but gray.
Edibility:
False honeysuckle sulfur-yellow poisonous. When eaten, after 1-6 hours nausea, vomiting, sweating appear, the person loses consciousness.
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