Parrot Waxcap

Hygrocybe psittacina

Open places: meadows, pastures, roadsides, forests. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 1.5-3 (5) cm across, bell-shaped, soon becoming flattened, with an umbo, slimy, green when young, greenish-yellow, orange-yellow with greenish spots when mature. Gills the colour of the cap, adnate. Stem 3-8x0.3-0.8 cm, slimy when young, the colour of the cap. Flesh thin, not fleshy, the colour of the cap, without any particular smell or taste. Characteristic features: cap, gills, stem and flesh green, in mature fungi greenish-yellow. Grows in summer and autumn in small groups, in sunlit places, among grass (in meadows, forest edges, fallow land). Poisonous.