Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hypholoma fasciculare 2

Hypholoma fasciculare

Original - Photographed in Germany, a clump of Hypholoma fasciculare grows near trees, woodland being its preferred habitat. More commonly known as sulphur tuft or clustered woodlover, the mushrooms thrive on or near decaying trees and favour northern temperate regions, being widespread particularly in northern Europe and North America. The fungi is poisonous to humans and can cause gastrointestinal upset that lasts for a few days; fatalities are rare, though there is a risk of paralysis in severe cases. The very bitter taste of H. fasciculare is one possible reason for the singularity of severe poisoning occurrences.

Reason: No quorum on first nomination, here. I can't improve much on Sasata's reasoning (apart from the spelling error on colour ^^), so if you'll forgive the laziness: "Excellent example of species showing typical growth habit, and high enough resolution to show cap and stem surface details. The busted off cap also offers a glimpse into the gill structure and attachment, and flesh color."
Articles in which this image appears: Hypholoma fasciculare, Hypholoma, List of deadly fungi
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Other lifeforms/Fungi
Creator: Jörg Hempel

Support as nominator --Maedin\^talk 10:15, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, God knows how I missed this the first time around... J Milburn (talk) 10:23, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks like all this needs is a quorum. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 13:14, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support the idea of mushroom quorums. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:28, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Alchemist-hp (talk) 15:29, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --The High Fin Sperm Whale 17:15, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Not a perfect specimen, but in this case it's probably not a bad thing for EV since there's a bunch of them. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 13:01, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- It actually turns out that the damaged one is useful. It gives you information about the gills and the flesh colour. Noodle snacks (talk) 02:51, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Avenue (talk) 21:27, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Hypholoma fasciculare LC0091.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 07:14, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]