Cilshafe Wood, Pembrokeshire

Sulphur tuft on a fallen tree

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Hypholoma fasciculare (from the same Latin root as fascism: fasces meaning a bundle). These colourful fungi grow on rotten wood in clusters that can contain a huge mass of fruiting bodies. They look attractive but are highly toxic although not normally fatal.

Uploaded to Geograph by ceridwen on 15 September 2010

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