sulphur tuft

plural sulphur tufts · alternative sulfur tuft

1. A yellow poisonous mushroom, Hypholoma fasciculare (= Naematoloma fasciculare).

   There were good fungi and bad ones, he said; you had to learn the difference. You had to be sure, for instance, that you didn't pick sulphur tufts instead of branching oysters.

   2012, Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, page 209

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   Several of the key identifying characteristics listed above are expressly designed to rule out the poisonous Sulphur Tuft (N.fasaculare; see p. 159). It occasionally has been mistaken for the Smoky-gilled Naematoloma, but the toxic species has a greenish yellow to bright orangish yellow cap and, usually, bitter-tasting flesh. The gills of young Sulphur Tufts are greenish yellow to sulphur yellow, darkening to purplish brown in age.

   1992, David W. Fischer, Alan E. Bessette, Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America: A Field-to-kitchen Guide, page 81

   The similar but less common Sulphur Tuft, Hypholoma fasciculare, is a yellow mushroom yielding a purple-brown spore print; it grows on logs and stumps. The Sulphur Tuft is very bitter. Poisonous, it causes nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.

   2003, Charles L. Fergus, Common Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast, page 25