Hygrocybe acute (Hygrocybe acutoconica)

Systematics:
  • Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
  • Family: Hygrophoraceae (Hygrophoraceae)
  • Genus: Hygrocybe
  • Type: Hygrocybe acutoconica (Hygrocybe acute)
  • Hygrocybe persisting
  • Persistent moisture

External Description

The cap is pointed, becoming broadly conical with age, up to 7 cm in diameter, slimy, fibrous, finely fleshy, with a sharp tubercle. Light yellow plates. Yellow-orange or yellow cap. Inexpressive taste and smell. Mucous hollow leg up to 1 cm in diameter and up to 12 cm high. White spore powder.

Edibility

The mushroom contains poisonous substances.

Habitat

Grows in pastures, meadows, forests of various types.

Season

Summer autumn.

Similar species

It is similar to other types of hygrocybe, which have brightly colored hats.

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