Blackening Waxcap

Hygrocybe conica

Forest edges, roadsides, damp, grassy, open places. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 2-6 cm across, sometimes larger, conical, orange-red, reddish-yellow, sometimes fading to yellow, greenish-yellow. Gills adnate, broad, yellowish. Stem 5-10x0.5-1.5 cm, of even thickness, twisted, fibrous, greenish-yellow, when old blackish-spotted or entirely black. Flesh yellowish, turning black when cut or broken, without any particular smell, mild-tasting. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies orange-red, greenish-yellow, blackening. Grows in sunlit places among grass, singly or in small groups. Mildly poisonous. Common.