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Hygrocybe conica
Commonly known as the witch's hat, conical wax cap or conical slimy cap This was tiny. About 1.5 inches tall
In grasses on the top of a ridge about 100m from forestry
Any assistance identifying this would be helpful. I have been unable to locate it in any book but I thing it is very young and yet to grow into a mature fungus.
Thanks all for you help and thanks for the info on plants/animal Mark. Every day is a learning day.
Hygrocybe chlorophana or Hygrocybe conica seem the most likely candidates so far. I wish I had taken a picture of the gills as I've subsequently found that this is the easiest way to be sure of the plant. Not sure I could ever find this again due to the extreme remoteness of its location.
Well,i have been searching Hygrocybe psittacina info and i found that more likely that this one is a Hygrocybe conica,is still young(no signs of any decay) and Hygrocybe psittacina tend to be green when young and yellow after a few time,but of course in what concern to fungi,id without spore prints or microscopic photos is allways not 100% sure,lets see what our fungi specialist have to say,i'll show it to Randy and Orbea tonigth so we can have more opinions :-)
It's always important to see the underneath on these. Gills can say a lot. It looks like a Hygrocybe to me. Some H. examples Hygrocybe psittacina, http://mycologista.blogspot.com.au/2010_...
Hygrocybe persistens https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:...
or Hygrocybe chlorophana. http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/golden...
Spotted on Nov 9, 2013
Submitted on Feb 11, 2014
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