Scarlet-orange waxy cap

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

Beautiful! Wikipedia says this Northwestern US form of the species might one day be considered a separate species. Posted one year ago
1. morpheme
  
  Lion
  
  I'm still not 100% about this one... I spent a long time staring at the species on this page: https://ffsc.us/MOM/2016/Waxy before deciding it fit with aurantiosplendens more than it did than laetissima.. This is probably the biggest waxy cap I've ever seen. Kind of looks like and was about the size of a large tomato. Posted one year ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    It's a gorgeous specimen for sure. I think it's fine to tentatively ID the species like this, perhaps in the future there will be more clarity on how to distinguish them. Posted one year ago
  2. 1. morpheme
      
      Lion
      
      I think in the end I decided it had to be aurantiosplendens because of the color - it's the only one of the group of large sized waxies that should have orange mixed with the scarlet and it's definitely got orange. The weirdness with the white peeling layer on the stipe is confusing though.. We've had so much rain in the past few weeks - a lot of things do seem to look a little different because they are waterlogged.. Posted one year ago, modified one year ago

The Orange Waxcap

"Hygrocybe aurantiosplendens," commonly known as the orange waxcap, is a gilled fungus in the family Hygrophoraceae. It mainly occurs in Europe, but is also found in Siberia, and on both the East and West coasts of North America. It is uncertain if the continental ecotypes are in fact conspecific and are sometimes treated as distinct species.

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Similar species: Agaricales

Species identified by morpheme