Date-coloured Waxcap or Blackening Waxcap?
Well I think this is a Date-coloured Waxcap but I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong as I am not an expert. It isn't illustrated in some of my fungi guides but it is a dead-ringer for the Hygrocybe spadicea illustrated in the new(ish) Collins Guide. I wondered if it could be a brown Blackening Waxcap but the cap didn't seem pointed enough, nor was the rim of the cap wavy, and it wasn't remotely black. The splitting cap seemed to fit better with spadicea rather than conica too. But Date-coloured Waxcap is quite a rare species that I have not encountered previously. It was growing in some grassland very high in the Pennine Hills near Wessenden Head in West Yorkshire.
PS I went back 36 hours later and it was as black as a coal hole picnic, so Blackening Waxcap (H conica).
Date-coloured Waxcap or Blackening Waxcap?
Well I think this is a Date-coloured Waxcap but I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong as I am not an expert. It isn't illustrated in some of my fungi guides but it is a dead-ringer for the Hygrocybe spadicea illustrated in the new(ish) Collins Guide. I wondered if it could be a brown Blackening Waxcap but the cap didn't seem pointed enough, nor was the rim of the cap wavy, and it wasn't remotely black. The splitting cap seemed to fit better with spadicea rather than conica too. But Date-coloured Waxcap is quite a rare species that I have not encountered previously. It was growing in some grassland very high in the Pennine Hills near Wessenden Head in West Yorkshire.
PS I went back 36 hours later and it was as black as a coal hole picnic, so Blackening Waxcap (H conica).