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English Names Relating To Common Fungi > Wax Cap Features > Flashcards

Wax Cap Features Flashcards

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Oily Waxcap
Hygrocybe quieta
Yellow/orange

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Oily smell
Orangy red gills
Contorted stipe

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Spangle Waxcap
Hygrocybe insipida
Orange/Red

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Dark red striations on cap
Red to to stipe

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Butter Waxcap
Hygrocybe ceracea
Yellow

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Bright yellow with eye spot
Greasy cap
Pale yellow gills

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Glutinous Waxcap
Hygrocybe glutinipes
Yellow/orange

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Sticky slimy cap and stipe
Cap striated
Small in size

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Golden Waxcap
Hygrocybe chlorophana
Yellow/orange

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Cap slimy
White or pale yellow gills
Stipe often flattend

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Orange Waxcap
Hygrocybe aurantiospledens
Orange/yellow

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Cap slimy
Stipe yellow and often flattened

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Persistent Waxcap
Hygrocybe autoconia
Yellow

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Conical cap
Long yellow stipe with almost white base
Pale yellow/orange gills

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Blackening Waxcap
Hygrocybe conica
Orange then black

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Starts orange and turns black
Conical cap

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Citrine Waxcap
Hygrocybe citrinovirens
Light yellow

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Yellow with a lime green tinge
Conical often splitting cap
White gills

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Heath Waxcap
Gliophorus laetus
Apricot/orange

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Smells of rubber
Slimy small cap
Decurrent gills with slimy edge

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Scarlet Waxcap
Hygrocybe coccinea
Scarlet red

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Scarlet cap
Orange/red gills with yellow edge

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Crimson Waxcap
Hygrocybe punicea
Red

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Largest red species
Cap dry
Gills yellow/orange

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Splendid Waxcap
Hygrocybe splendidissima
Red

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Large red cap
Dry cap and stipe
Stipe often twisted
Pale edge on gills

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Goblet Waxcap
Hygrocybe cantharellus
Red/orange

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Dry cap with fine scales
Turning funnel shaped
Decurrent gills

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Limestone Waxcap
Hygrocybe calciphila
Orange

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Limestone habitat
Cap dry with tiny scales
Tapering stipe

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Snowy Waxcap
Cuphophyllus virgineus
White

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Shiny white cap
Stipe tapers
Creamy white distant gills

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Cedarwood Waxcap
Cuphophyllus russocoriaceus
White

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Smaller than Snowy Waxcap
Distinct smell of ceaderwood
(Imperial leather soap)

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Meadow Waxcap
Cuphophyllus pratensis
Apricot

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Largest waxcap
Decurrent gills
Tapering stipe

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Yellow Foot Waxcap
Cuphophyllus flavipes
Grey/hints of lilac

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Grey cap
Decurrent gills
Yellow base to stipe

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Toasted Waxcap
Cuphophyllus colemannianus
Tan brown

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Umbonate cap
Thick wrinkled irregular gills
Interconnecting veins

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Slimy Waxcap
Gliophorus irrigatus
Brown/grey

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Extremly slimy cap and stipe
Stipe corrugated

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Hygrocybe ovina
Blushing Waxcap
Brownish/grey

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All flesh bruising red
Contorted stipe
Chemical smell

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Nitrous Waxcap
Hygrocybe nitrata
Brown

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Cap brown with fine scales
Slightly greasy
Gills creamy white, free, distant
Strong chemical smell

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