Hypholoma sublateritium

Taxobox
name = "Hypholoma sublateritium"

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image_width = 220px
regnum = Fungi
divisio = Basidiomycota
classis = Agaricomycetes
ordo = Cortinariales or Agaricales
familia = Strophariaceae
genus = "Hypholoma"
species = "H. sublateritium"
binomial = "Hypholoma sublateritium"
binomial_authority = (Fr.) Quélet

"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

Cap: 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.
*Gills: Crowded, starting yellowish and becoming grayish with age. They do not have the green color of "H. fasciculare".
*Stipe: Light yellow, darker below.
*Spore powder: Olive purple-brown.
*Taste: Mild to somewhat bitter.
*Microscopic characteristics: Spores 6.0-7.5 × 3.5-4.0 μm, with germ pore, cheilocystidia variable.

mycomorphbox
name = Hypholoma sublateritium
whichGills = adnate
capShape = convex
hymeniumType=gills
stipeCharacter=bare
ecologicalType=saprotrophic
sporePrintColor=brown
howEdible=edible

References

* Mostly taken from the German page.

* http://www.mushroomexpert.com/hypholoma_sublateritium.html