Waxcaps can be found in old grassland that has NOT had lots of fertilizer applied. Today I went on a foray with Claire Bending from the Yorkshire Waxcaps project and three other friends in Ribblesdale near Helwith Bridge. In Settle it was grey and cloudy, but four miles up the valley here, there was was blue sky and sun.
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holding a Scarlet Waxcap -
( Hygrocybe coccinea) |
The grass was fairly closely cropped by sheep which was excellent for the waxcaps.
Here are several yellow and orange waxcaps that I have now learned to differentiate between. I might just have lumped them as one species last year !!. Plus a couple of Pink-Gills (Entoloma) - that I still cannot name.
We also found (though not shown here) - Cordyceps militaris, Meadow Coral, White spindle, Yellow Spindle (possibly two types) and Black Earth-tongue, Parrot Waxcap, Snowy Waxcap, Scarlet Waxcap, Crimson Waxcap and Meadow Waxcap. So altogether I saw 13 waxcaps, maybe four Entolomas (Pink- gills) one Earthtongue and at least three spindles/clubs.
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| Pink Gill -1 |
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| Pink-Gill 1 from below |
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| The Goblet Waxcap - if you look closely it has tiny hairs on its cap |
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| The Goblet (pretty tiny!) |
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| Butter waxcap - If you look at the top middle one you see its gills are adnate... which is different to the next one... |
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| Whereas this one, the more common yellow waxcap around Settle Hygrocybe chlorophana has sinuate gills. |
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| This is the Persistent Waxcap, Hygrocybe autoconica (better known as Hygrocybe persistens - but it has been discovered that it was called H autoconica first so that is now its official name) It has a viscid (sticky) cap, that is usually a bit more conical than this, and a dry stipe. |
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| We also found Oily Waxcap Hygrocybe quieta - that smells of oil. Its cap and stipe are greasy. Its gills are yellow to salmon pink in colour. |
We found Honey Waxcap too - though I have not got a photo of that.
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