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Waxcap - Yellow

Hygrocybe flavescens

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49.2601, -122.512

Field Notes

Description:

Waxy orange yellow cap that gets lighter yellow as it ages. Stipe is hollow and gills are subdistant and abnexed. Gills are waxy and cap is about 2 inches across. Stipe is 1 1/2 inches long. Cap is sticky and forest debris sticks to it. Edge of cap is uneven and cracking as it ages.

Habitat:

A lot of them found fruiting in April on our land under cedar trees and in the leaf and conifer litter.

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Comments (3)
KathleenMcEachern
I tested out the gills and when you rub one between your fingers, they really are waxy. What a beautiful mushroom!

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Mushroom Mapping
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The Pacific Northwest Bioregion
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Fungus in America
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Wildlife of Albion Under the Trees

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PublishedApril 26, 2013

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