Hygrocybe - Wikipedia
Hygrocybe is a genus of agarics (gilled fungi) in the family Hygrophoraceae. Called waxcaps in English (sometimes waxy caps in North America), basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are often brightly coloured and have dry to waxy caps, white spores, and smooth, ringless stems.
Waxcap Fungi – Identification, Distribution, Edibility ...
Nov 13, 2011 · Among the stellar array of colourful, sculpturesque and eccentric wild mushrooms, the waxcap family (hygrocybes) shine brightest. They are the rare, beautiful jewels of the fungi world, shining like rubies, emeralds and diamonds in late autumn meadows, lawns and graveyards. Snowy waxcaps, Cuphophyllus virgineus.
Waxy Cap Mushrooms: Comprehensive Identification Guide
Aug 10, 2024 · Waxy cap mushrooms are characterized by their smooth, slippery-looking, often brightly colored caps. They often show off with vibrant red, orange, yellow, and even blue or green hues. Beneath the caps, the gills are typically thick, waxy, and distant, sometimes contrasting starkly with the cap color.
The Waxy Caps (MushroomExpert.Com)
The waxy caps are white-spored mushrooms with thick, waxy gills and, frequently, waxy or slimy caps. Under the microscope they feature boring, inamyloid, round to ellipsoid spores and, in most cases, elongated basidia that often measure well over 40 µ long.
How to Find and Identify Waxcap Fungi - Plantlife
Waxcaps are types of mushrooms known for their shiny-looking caps. Together with other types of fascinatingly named fungi called pinkgills, earthtongues, club and coral fungi – they form a group called “grassland fungi”.
Hygrocybe coccinea - Wikipedia
Hygrocybe coccinea, sometimes called the scarlet hood, scarlet waxcap or righteous red waxy cap, is a colourful member of the mushroom genus Hygrocybe. These waxcaps are found across the Northern Hemisphere from China and Japan to Europe and North America.
Hygrocybe conica - Wikipedia
Hygrocybe conica is a species of agaric (gilled mushroom) in the family Hygrophoraceae. In the UK it has been given the recommended English name of blackening waxcap, [1] since all parts of the basidiocarp (fruit body) blacken with age. In North America it is commonly known as the witch's hat, conical wax cap or conical slimy cap.
Hygrocybe chlorophana, Golden Waxcap mushroom - First …
Golden Waxcaps are all too easily confused with other yellow waxcap species. Restricted to the increasingly scarce habitat of unimproved grassland, Hygrocybe chlorophana is an infrequent but far from rare species in Britain and Ireland, and it occurs also in parts of mainland Europe.
Hygrocybe cantharellus, Goblet Waxcap mushroom - First Nature
Restricted to unimproved mossy grassland, Hygrocybe cantharellus is an infrequent but far from rare species in Britain and Ireland, and it occurs also in parts of mainland Europe. This tiny waxcap is also recorded in the USA, where it is mainly a woodland mushroom.
Hygrocybe cantharellus: The Ultimate Mushroom Guide
Hygrocybe cantharellus is a gorgeous little waxy cap that features fairly dry surfaces, a (proportionally) long stem, a very finely scaly cap surface, and beautifully contrasting pale yellow gills that run down the stem.