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Hygrocybe coccinea
Similar in appearance to Hygrocybe punicea, H. coccinea has a less fibrous stem and is usually a brighter blood red when in it's prime whilst H. punicea is described as having a dark blood red colour and more distant gills. H. splendidissima is very similar but also has a more fibrous stem, H. spledidissima has a brighter red cap than H. coccinea. The differences and descriptions can be found here: http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/hygroc... My spotting had a dry stem and cap. about 2cm tall. Due to the small size and lack of heavily fibrous stem I'm tentatively IDing this a H. coccinea. I've not taken into consideration other similar species (due to lack of time) such as Hygrocybe miniata, Hygrocybe reidii, Hygrocybe insipida
av7 - somewhere along the footpath between here and the road
Spotted on Oct 14, 2012
Submitted on Apr 5, 2013
3 Comments
thanks antonio! due to the colour I didn't consider anything other than it being a waxcap but for all I know it might be something else. I did a 'kiss-test' to test how viscid/waxy the cap was and it must have fallen straight off my lips since it's marked down as having a dry cap.
After seeing you other spotting ,i'am even less sure of that's a deciver,the gills are very diferent in shape and collour,so probebly you are correct :-)
Beautiful find lipase,to me at first it look´s like a common deciver,with a unusual collour,but you know that i'am not specialist,far from that :-)