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Spotting

Description:

small, bright red musroom.

Habitat:

Growing out of a bed of moss in a dried up creek bed.

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7 Comments

AlexKonig
AlexKonig 11 years ago

hygrocybe miniata

JuliaKDougherty
JuliaKDougherty 11 years ago

Wow, what a great color!

mauna Kunzah
mauna Kunzah 11 years ago

Wow, this is beautiful!

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

beautiful - the green moss sets it off wonderfully

Beautiful!

MarshallWeber
MarshallWeber 11 years ago

Awesome mushroom! I would say it is one of the many waxy caps-either genus Hygrocybe or Hygrophorus. I would probably say Hygrophorus miniatus-Fading Scarlet Waxy Cap. It likes to live in moss and its widespread across North America. It is very small as the width of the cap is usually 3/4" to 1 and 5/8," it only grows to be 1" to 2" tall and the width of the stalk is usually 1/8 of an inch thick. I am an amateur at best but that's my guess! Here are pictures: http://www.missourimycologicalsociety.or....

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Wow this is beautiful nice spotting !

JackieLouWho
Spotted by
JackieLouWho

Pennsylvania, USA

Spotted on Aug 7, 2012
Submitted on Aug 7, 2012

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