Wax Cap Features Flashcards
Oily Waxcap
Hygrocybe quieta
Yellow/orange
Oily smell
Orangy red gills
Contorted stipe
Spangle Waxcap
Hygrocybe insipida
Orange/Red
Dark red striations on cap
Red on the stipe
Butter Waxcap
Hygrocybe ceracea
Yellow
Bright yellow with eye spot
Greasy cap
Pale yellow gills
Glutinous Waxcap
Hygrocybe glutinipes
Yellow/orange
Sticky slimy cap and stipe
Cap striated
Small in size
Golden Waxcap
Hygrocybe chlorophana
Yellow/orange
Cap slimy
White or pale yellow gills
Stipe often flattend
Orange Waxcap
Hygrocybe aurantiospledens
Orange/yellow
Cap slimy
Stipe yellow and often flattened
Persistent Waxcap
Hygrocybe autoconica
Yellow
Conical cap
Long yellow stipe with almost white base
Pale yellow/orange gills
Blackening Waxcap
Hygrocybe conica
Orange then black
Starts orange and turns black
Conical cap
Citrine Waxcap
Hygrocybe citrinovirens
Light yellow
Yellow with a lime green tinge
Conical often splitting cap
White gills
Heath Waxcap
Gliophorus laetus
Apricot/orange
Smells of rubber
Slimy small cap
Decurrent gills with slimy edge
Scarlet Waxcap
Hygrocybe coccinea
Scarlet red
Scarlet cap
Orange/red gills with yellow edge
Crimson Waxcap
Hygrocybe punicea
Red
Largest red species
Cap dry
Gills yellow/orange
Splendid Waxcap
Hygrocybe splendidissima
Red
Large red cap
Dry cap and stipe
Stipe often twisted
Pale edge on gills
Goblet Waxcap
Hygrocybe cantharellus
Red/orange
Dry cap with fine scales
Turning funnel shaped
Decurrent gills
Limestone Waxcap
Hygrocybe calciphila
Orange
Limestone habitat
Cap dry with tiny scales
Tapering stipe
Snowy Waxcap
Cuphophyllus virgineus
White
Shiny white cap
Stipe tapers
Creamy white distant gills
Cedarwood Waxcap
Cuphophyllus russocoriaceus
White
Smaller than Snowy Waxcap
Distinct smell of ceaderwood
(Imperial leather soap)
Meadow Waxcap
Cuphophyllus pratensis
Apricot
Largest waxcap
Decurrent gills
Tapering stipe
Yellow Foot Waxcap
Cuphophyllus flavipes
Grey/hints of lilac
Grey cap
Decurrent gills
Yellow base to stipe
Toasted Waxcap
Cuphophyllus colemannianus
Tan brown
Umbonate cap
Thick wrinkled irregular gills
Interconnecting veins
Slimy Waxcap
Gliophorus irrigatus
Brown/grey
Extremly slimy cap and stipe
Stipe corrugated
Hygrocybe ovina
Blushing Waxcap
Brownish/grey
All flesh bruising red
Contorted stipe
Chemical smell
Nitrous Waxcap
Hygrocybe nitrata
Brown
Cap brown with fine scales
Slightly greasy
Gills creamy white, free, distant
Strong chemical smell
