Spangle Waxcap - Hygrocybe insipida
Small waxcap with greasy orange-red cap with paler striate edge, convex at first then becoming flattened. Stipe yellow with red top. Gills broadly attached to decurrent.
Butter waxcap and other small red-orange waxcaps
Good photographs showing gills and top of stipe needed
old grassland
October-November
marianmarkham@btinternet.com
Yew Avenue Clipsham
13 October 2024
young fruiting body
marianmarkham@btinternet.com
Yew Avenue Clipsham
13 October 2024
older specimen.
Red top to stipe
marianmarkham@btinternet.com
Yew Avenue Clipsham
13 October 2024
marianmarkham@btinternet.com
Yew Avenue Clipsham
13 October 2024
sue
Twycross churchyard
21 October 2024
sue
Bradgate Park, near covered reservoir
22 October 2024
sue
Bradgate Park, near covered reservoir
22 October 2024
sue
Ibstock Cemetery
16 October 2024
sue
Ibstock Cemetery
16 October 2024
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Species profile
- Common names
- Spangle Waxcap
- Species group:
- Fungi
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- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 13/10/2024 (Markham, Marian)
- Last record:
- 30/10/2025 (Timms, Sue)
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sue
Peckleton, churchyard
29 October 2024
sue
Peckleton, churchyard
29 October 2024
sue
Leicester, Saffrom Hill Cemetery
19 October 2024
sue
Ibstock Cemetery
16 October 2024
