Hygrocybe cinnabar red (Hygrocybe miniata)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Hygrophoraceae (Hygrophoraceae)
- Genus: Hygrocybe
- Type: Hygrocybe miniata (Hygrocybe cinnabar red)
Hygrophorus threatened
Hygrocybe cinnabar red (Hygrocybe miniata) has a cap at first bell-shaped, then prostrate, with a smoothed tubercle 1-2 cm in diameter, fiery or orange-cinnabar-red, first with small scales, then smooth. The edge is ribbed or cracked. The skin is matte, with a light coating. The leg is cylindrical, thin, fragile, narrowed down and even slightly curved. The plates are rare, wide and fleshy, slightly descending towards the stem. There is little pulp, it is watery, almost odorless and tasteless. The flesh is thin, red, then turning yellow. Spores are white, smooth, in the form of short ellipses 8-11 x 5-6 microns in size.
VARIABILITY
The bright red hat is sometimes framed with a yellow rim. The plates can be yellowish, orange or red with a light yellow edge.
HABITAT
It occurs in meadows, grassy and mossy places, along forest edges and clearings, in wetlands in June-November.
SEASON
Summer – autumn (June – November).
SIMILAR TYPES
Hygrocybe cinnabar-red is very similar to the edible marsh hygrocybe (Hygrocybe helobia), which is mainly distinguished by white-yellowish plates in its youth and grows in swamps and peat bogs.
GENERAL INFORMATION
a hat 1-2 cm in diameter; color red
leg 3-6 cm high, 2-3 mm thick; color red
records orange-red
flesh reddish
smell no
taste no
Disputes white
nutritional qualities Here the opinions of different sources differ. Some argue that it is inedible, others say that the mushroom is edible, but has no practical significance.
