Fibrous Waxcap - Hygrocybe intermedia
Conical then expanding, sometimes lobed, surface dry and fibrous, centre scurfy, red then orange or orange-yellow, to about 6 cm across. Gills are only partly attached or free, whitish to pale yellow, thick, edge sometimes serrated. The stipe is very fibrous.
Blackening Waxcap is also orange and conical. Some other red waxcaps become yellower with age.
This is a difficult species; we recommend that it is verified by an expert from a specimen before submitting to NatureSpot.
In unimproved grassland.
Autumn
A widespread but not particularly common species in Britain.
Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Thornton Reservoir
13 November 2004
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Species profile
- Common names
- Fibrous Waxcap
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Hygrophoraceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 13/11/2004 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 13/11/2004 (Nicholls, David)
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