Golden Waxy Cap

Description:

I never got the smell of the mushroom but the cap wasn’t slimy, it was dry. It had an orange cap and stalk, the gills were attached and the cap was circular. The fungi was 4 cm tall and the cap was 2-3 cm width.

Habitat:

We found it on the edge of the woods. There was pine and oak trees around and it was in a bundle of 3 mushrooms.

Notes:

12.16.11 Mushroom Field Notes It was November 2nd, my class was out side, we got our feet freezing because of snow filling our shoes and got sticks poking in our face, finally after looking for five minutes we had found a mushroom! We found it on the edge of the woods. There was pine and oak trees around and it was in a bundle of 3 mushrooms. I never got the smell of the mushroom but the cap wasn’t slimy, it was dry. It had an orange cap and stalk, the gills were attached and the cap was circular. The fungi was 4 cm tall and the cap was 2-3 cm long. I believe that the mushroom is a gill fungi. The Kingdom is Fungi Division is Basidiomycota Class is Agaricomycetes Order is Argaicales Family is Strophariceae Genus is Hypholoma Species is H. Fasciculare. I narrowed the fungi group down and I think that it is a Golden Waxy Cap. They have all the same characteristics ( orange cap and stalk, the gills were attached and the cap was circular, the fungi is 4 cm tall and the cap is 2-3 cm long). They are found in East North America to Michigan, Texas and The West Coast.