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Golden Waxy Cap (Hygrocybe flavescens) Growing in a flood plain in moist leaf litter/soil below oak, hickory, and tulip poplar trees.<br /> <br /> Or is this H. cholorophana? <br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/105330/golden_waxy_caps_hygrocybe_flavescens.html" title="Golden Waxy Caps (Hygrocybe flavescens)"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3231/105330_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=EFgl4vN6v6yRbdUbFJde8AOJNDM%3D" width="200" height="134" alt="Golden Waxy Caps (Hygrocybe flavescens) Growing in a flood plain in moist leaf litter/soil below oak, hickory, and tulip poplar trees.<br /> <br /> Or is this H. cholorophana? <br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/105331/golden_waxy_cap_hygrocybe_flavescens.html<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/105329/golden_waxy_caps_hygrocybe_flavescens.html Fall,Geotagged,Hygrocybe flavescens,United States" /></a></figure><br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/105329/golden_waxy_caps_hygrocybe_flavescens.html" title="Golden Waxy Caps (Hygrocybe flavescens)"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3231/105329_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=S8Zod%2BbXwinqsJx6jPtOcuY2EC8%3D" width="200" height="134" alt="Golden Waxy Caps (Hygrocybe flavescens) Growing in a flood plain in moist leaf litter/soil below oak, hickory, and tulip poplar trees.<br /> <br /> Or is this H. cholorophana?<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/105331/golden_waxy_cap_hygrocybe_flavescens.html<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/105330/golden_waxy_caps_hygrocybe_flavescens.html Fall,Geotagged,Hygrocybe flavescens,United States" /></a></figure> Fall,Geotagged,Hygrocybe flavescens,United States Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Golden Waxy Cap (Hygrocybe flavescens)

Growing in a flood plain in moist leaf litter/soil below oak, hickory, and tulip poplar trees.

Or is this H. cholorophana?

Golden Waxy Caps (Hygrocybe flavescens) Growing in a flood plain in moist leaf litter/soil below oak, hickory, and tulip poplar trees.<br /> <br /> Or is this H. cholorophana? <br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/105331/golden_waxy_cap_hygrocybe_flavescens.html<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/105329/golden_waxy_caps_hygrocybe_flavescens.html Fall,Geotagged,Hygrocybe flavescens,United States

Golden Waxy Caps (Hygrocybe flavescens) Growing in a flood plain in moist leaf litter/soil below oak, hickory, and tulip poplar trees.<br /> <br /> Or is this H. cholorophana?<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/105331/golden_waxy_cap_hygrocybe_flavescens.html<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/105330/golden_waxy_caps_hygrocybe_flavescens.html Fall,Geotagged,Hygrocybe flavescens,United States

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    Christine Young
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    I always love gill shots <3 Posted 4 years ago
    1. View Flown Kimmerling's profile
      Flown Kimmerling
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      Same! So dreamy! Posted 4 years ago
      1. View Christine Young's profile
        Christine Young
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        Yes! Posted 4 years ago

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The Hygrocybe flavescens

Hygrophorus flavescens (Kauffman) Smith & Hesler syn. Cap 2.5-7cm across, broadly convex becoming flatter in age, sometimes with a depressed disc; margin incurved at first, sometimes upturned and wavy in mature specimens; bright orange, paler toward margin; sticky, smooth, then dry and shiny, margin striate when moist.

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Similar species: Agaricales
Species identified by Flown Kimmerling
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By Flown Kimmerling

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Uploaded Dec 9, 2020. Captured Nov 9, 2020 12:10 in 227 Oakman Rd NE, Oakman, GA 30732, USA.
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  • Canon EOS 6D Mark II
  • f/29.0
  • 1/99s
  • ISO100
  • 100mm
Captured in the fall. More fall photos.