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Witch's hat

Hygrocybe conica

Description:

The witch's hat is a small mushroom, with a convex to conical yellow-orange to red cap 2 to 5 cm in diameter. Bruises black ,like we can see in the last photo

Habitat:

Spotted in the S.Joâo Hospital gardens,a place where i never imagined that could sustein such a amazing variety of fungis and trees,beautiful in this season

Notes:

http://www.google.pt/url?sa=t&rct=j&...

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6 Comments

Thanks Emma and Yuko for your's so nice comments,it first time we saw one so "intensly " :) diferent mushroom

YukoChartraw
YukoChartraw 11 years ago

So vivid! Love the name, too!

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 11 years ago

stunningly beautiful!!

done it, last photo taken today :)

i have one more photo that i take today of this one,is completly difeent in colour and it show the uper side,i'll load it in a few minutes,thanks for the id Ligthworkerpeace

lightworkerpeace
lightworkerpeace 11 years ago

Might be http://mushroomobserver.org/observer/obs...

You should post this on both sites!

Cedofeita, St Ildefonso, Sé , Miragaia, S. Nicolau e Vitória, Portugal

Spotted on Nov 17, 2012
Submitted on Nov 19, 2012

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