Golden Waxcaps

Description:

Bright yellow caps that were very sticky. Caps were 2-3 cm in diameter and had lined margins. The gills were pale yellow and fairly distant. Stems were yellow, like the caps. One stem was completely split.

Habitat:

These waxcaps were growing on the ground in a mixed forest. For a long time, waxcaps were considered to be saprobic on dead roots, but it is now considered likely that there is a mutualistic relationship between waxcaps and mosses.

Notes:

In Germany, Poland, and Switzerland, Hygrocybe chlorophana is of conservation concern, and appears on national red lists of threatened fungi.