Hypholoma lateritium
| Hypholoma sublateritium | |
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| Species: | H. sublateritium
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Hypholoma sublateritium, sometimes called Brick Cap, is rarer and less well-known than its relatives, the inedible Sulfur Tuft (Hypholoma fasciculare) and the edible Hypholoma capnoides. Its fruiting bodies are generally larger than either of these.
In Europe this mushroom is often considered inedible or even poisonous, but in the USA and Japan it is apparently a popular edible fungus. One further reason to avoid it is the possibility of confusion with Galerina marginata or H. fasciculare.
Description
The cap is 3.5–10cm in diameter, usually with a brick-red coloration in the center and a paler margin. It is smooth, sometimes with red-brown flecks in the middle and sometimes with flaky veil remnants, which can easily be washed off in the rain, on the outside.
The gills are crowded, starting yellowish and becoming grayish with age. They do not have the green color of Hypholoma fasciculare.
The stipe is light yellow and darker below.
Spores have a germ pore and are 6.0-7.5 × 3.5-4.0 μm. The cheilocystidia are variable; the spore powder is olive purple-brown.
The taste of Hypholoma sublateritium is mild to somewhat bitter.
Hypholoma sublateritium | |
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 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is convex |
 | Hymenium is adnate |
 | Stipe is bare |
 | Spore print is brown |
 | Ecology is saprotrophic |
 | Edibility is edible |
References
- Mostly taken from the German page.
- http://www.mushroomexpert.com/hypholoma_sublateritium.html
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