Persistent Waxcap

Persistent Waxcap - Hygrocybe acutoconica

Description

Deep yellow cap with a darker centre, sometimes orange, with a conical cap. The margin is irregular, and the tip and margin soon crack and split.  Sticky in wet weather.  The stipe is fibrillose and also yellow, with paler base that becomes greyish (not blackening) if bruised or cut.  The gills are variable pale yellow to orange in colour, free or adnexed.

Similar Species

Golden and Citrine Waxcap

Identification difficulty
Recording advice

Good quality photos from side, perferably showing fungus at different stages

Habitat

Grasslands

VC55 Status

Uncommon

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