Smoky-gilled Hypholoma

The cap is up to 8 centimetres (3 inches) in diameter with yellow-to-orange-brownish or matt yellow colour, sometimes viscid. It is convex then flattens in age. The stipe is yellowish, somewhat rust-brown below, growing to 12 cm (4+3⁄4 in) long. The flesh is yellow. The taste is mild, compared to most Hypholomas which are bitter. The gills are initially pale orangish-yellow, pale grey when mature, later darker purple to brown. The spore print is dark burgundy to brown.

Similar species. The poisonous Hypholoma fasciculare (sulphur tuft) is more common in many areas. H. capnoides has greyish gills due to the dark color of its spores, whereas sulphur tuft has greenish gills. It could also perhaps be confused with the deadly Galerina marginata or the good edible Kuehneromyces mutabilis. Additionally, it resembles members of Flammula and Pholiota.

Like its poisonous relative H. fasciculare ('sulphur tuft'), H. capnoides grows in clusters on decaying wood, for example in tufts on old tree stumps, in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Though edible when cooked, it could be confused with some poisonous species.

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