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Honey Waxcap - Hygrocybe reidii
Height: ~ 30 mm. Bright, scarlet red, dry, conical cap with a slightly scalloped margin. Waxy, pale yellow, distant gills with short gills that were broadly attached to the stipe. The stipe was red, dry, bald, equal, and had a white base. The mushroom had a sweet scent - like honey.
Growing out of fallen, rotting birch in a mostly deciduous forest.
"Hygrocybe reidii", commonly known as the honey waxcap, is a mushroom of the waxcap genus "Hygrocybe". It is found in Europe, and reported from eastern North America, although it is uncertain whether the North American population represents the same species.
Similar species: Agaricales
By Christine Young
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Uploaded Aug 6, 2018. Captured Aug 5, 2018 09:23 in 80 Main St, Sharon, CT 06069, USA.
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