Konrad's Waxcap

Hygrocybe konradii

Open, grassy places, forest edges, parks, roadsides. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 3-7 cm across, bluntly conical, surface smooth, sticky, orange-yellow, fading when old to greyish-brownish. Gills yellow, edges paler, thick, distant, adnate. Stem 6–7x0.3–1 cm, of even thickness, yellowish-orange, paler at the base. Flesh thin, yellow, the stem flesh white, not blackening when cut, without any particular smell or taste. Characteristic features: spores large, broadly elliptical. Grows singly or several fruiting bodies together in forests and on forest edges – in open, grassy places. Food value unknown. Rare.