Brick cap
Hypholoma lateritium · 砖红垂幕菇
Occasional球盖菇科❓ Edibility Unknown
Edibility is unknown and should be treated as poisonous.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Cap brick-red, darker at center, pale yellow at margin
- Gills grayish white, aging to purplish brown; stem shows cortina remnants
- Clusters on hardwood stumps in late autumn
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 球盖菇科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Wood
- How Big
- 3–8 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Occasional
- Habitat
- Hardwood stumps, in clumps
Easily Confused With
Sulphur tuftBrick cap has a brick-red cap and grey gills; sulphur tuft is sulphur-yellow with yellow-green gills.
Honey fungusCap honey-yellow to brown, with fine scales at the centerFun Fact
In the same genus as sulphur tuft, with a brick-red cap and a milder taste; sources disagree on its edibility, so it's left undetermined here.