Post by Michael J DavisYou made them all jump and run for cover!!
Be more subtle in your approach!
Happy new year!
BTW, I'm still waiting for help for fungal ID of
http://www.flickr.com/photos/watchman/8139774043/
I keep thinking it is, and then isn't, sulphur tuft. My mistake,
apparently was in not smelling it!
The wiki page for Sulphur Tuft ...
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur_tuft>
...descibes the cap shape as convex (and hemispherical).
I'd say your caps are ovate.
Cap shapes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileus_%28mycology%29>
The Sulphur Tuft hymenium is described as adnate.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenium>
This means nothing to me.
I think it's to do with how the gills meet the stipe (stem).
The Sulphur Tuft stipe has a ring.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipe_%28mycology%29>
Yours don't, sfaics.
The Sulphur Tuft spore print is brown.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_print>
That doesn't help us.
My "Field Guide to Mushrooms" says of Suphur Tuft;-
"The sulphur yellow cap (... (cap size)) is clearly browner in the centre" -
which, I don't think is true of yours.
of cap shape;
"initially hemispherical or campanulate" (neither form shown in the key!)
"quickly become shallowly convex or flattened."
(This is one of those situations like having one watch, you know the time,
but with two watches you're not sure.)
That cap shape description seems even less like yours.
Spore print: greyish violet. (which is beyond both my eyes to see, and my
mind to comprehend).
(I'm giving up at this point.)
I don't think they're Sulphur Tuft.