Sunday 8 November 2015

Great new waxcap - Blushing Waxcap

I haven't reported a new waxcap for a week or two although I have come across one or two new ones. Yesterday's find though was the spectacular Blushing Waxcap (Hygrocybe ovina), found in the neighbouring village of Penallt right at the end of a very wet fungi foray. Another of those waxcaps, undoubtedly underreported, but nonetheless having less than 20 reported sightings in Wales in the last 35 years according to one online source. Previously this year I have found several instances of Hygrocybe ingrata (no English name) which has a similar level of reporting.

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