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Smoky-gilled HypholomaHypholoma capnoides

edible

Smoky-gilled HypholomaHypholoma capnoides

Photo: (c) ikelman, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Habitat

under pines

under spruce

mixed forests

Season

from September to December

Strophariaceae

2–7 cm

Season

At its peakThe peak lasts until early November and the season usually until early December.

Today · 29 Oct–4 Nov91% of peak

how often reportedpeak

Season

Sep–Dec

Peak

Oct–Nov

Reports

528Poland and neighbours

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Funeral Bell grows at the same time

Both species grow together for about 12 wk a year. Most strongly from mid-October to early November.

Maślanka wiązkowaIn the forest together about 11 wk a year.

Curve from 528 observations (GBIF: Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Germany), smoothed week by week. It shows when foragers most often report the species, not how much of it grows.

Key features

Cap honey yellow to ochre, smooth; grows in dense clusters only on conifer stumps. Gills whitish at first, then gray-bluish, never greenish. Flesh mild in taste, which distinguishes it from the bitter Sulphur Tuft.

Similar (be careful)Confusions documented in our database

Funeral BellGalerina marginata

deadly

Both grow on dead wood, including conifer wood, and both form clusters, so the way they grow does not tell them apart. The Smoky-gilled Hypholoma has grayish to purple-brown gills, a purple-brown spore print and a stem without a membranous ring. The Funeral Bell has rusty brown gills and a spore print of the same color, a narrow ring and silvery fibrils below it. The Funeral Bell contains amatoxins, so small brown mushrooms from wood are not picked without checking the ring and the spore print color.

Sulphur TuftHypholoma fasciculare

toxic

The Smoky-gilled Hypholoma grows on conifer stumps and has gray-bluish gills and mild flesh. The Sulphur Tuft has sulfur-yellow gills turning greenish and a distinctly bitter taste. When in doubt, the gill color decides, not the cap color.

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