More new waxcaps

And this time here at The Beeches. I spotted some different looking waxcaps in the East field which is the best for waxcaps. If I hadn't had help I would have talked myself into assigning all three specimens into known waxcaps I have already identified and would have decided they were just unusual specimens but all three types looked different. Luckily an expert was on hand to look at them and then take them away for some serious identification work. Above is the first of the new species for The Beeches - the Cedarwood Waxcap (Hygrocybe russiocoriacea). Its distinctive feature is a smell of pencil shavings.