#brick tuft

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Hypholoma lateritium (syn. Hypholoma sublateritium) Ziegelroter Schwefelkopf Brick Tuft or Brick Cap

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A Brick Cap or Brick Tuft | Hypholoma lateritium

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Hypholoma lateritium

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Hypholoma sublateritium

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Hypholoma lateritium (syn. Hypholoma sublateritium) Ziegelroter Schwefelkopf Brick Tuft or Brick Cap

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Hypholoma sublateritium | ©Gennady Meshcheryakov  (Voronezh region, Russia)

If it were not for the striking brick-red colour and large size of the caps, these rather uncommon wood-rotting fungi, commonly called Brick Tuft, might easily be passed by, for they are in other respects similar to Sulphur Tufts and several other common tuft-forming woodland species.

Brick Tufts belongs to the species Hypholoma sublateritium (Agaricales - Strophariaceae), widely distributed throughout Britain and Ireland, most of mainland Europe, United States, and Japan.

There is some controversy over the edibility of this wood-rotting fungus. Field guides published in Britain generally refer to Brick Caps as inedible. In North America, however, some authorities state that these are good edible fungi if picked young while other report them as suspect or inedible.

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