Wednesday 14 October 2015

The Splendid Waxcap

Unbelievably I stumbled over another new waxcap in my East Field yesterday the Splendid Waxcap (Hygrocybe splendissima). At first I thought it was the Crimson Waxcap (Hygrocybe punicea) but I realised that features were not quite right for H punicea and that it must be H splendissima which I had never seen before. It has a 'dry and irregularly compressed stem' and a dry cap which are two of the features that distinguish it from H punicea as well as a different colour of the cap.

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