Tags
Ballerina waxcap, Blackening waxcap, Fibrous waxcap, Golden waxcap, Hygrocybe, parrot waxcap, Persistent waxcap, Pink waxcap, Scarlet waxcap, Slimy waxcap, Snowy waxcap, waxcap
Waxcaps can be wavy, waxen, wanton, waterlogged, weathered, wee, weensy, wet, whimsical, winsome, wispy, withered, wing-like, willowy, windblown, wobbling, wonderful, worshipful, wordless, worshipped, wondrous, wonky, wraithlike, and wrinkly!
These beauties, and their friends and families, are displaying many of those characteristics right now at my local cemetery. They are the Blackening waxcap (Hygrocybe conica), Fibrous (Hygrocybe intermedia), Golden (Hygrocybe chlorophana), Parrot (Gliophorus psittacinus), Persistent (Hygrocybe acutoconica), Pink (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis), Scarlet (Hygrocybe coccinea), Slimy (Gliophorus irrigatus), and Snowy waxcap (Cuphophyllus virgineus).
Beautiful and so colourful, a brilliant collection.
Blooming now in a unfertilised meadow near you! 🙂
I love the little pink ones, they are enchanting!
Ah, the ballerinas. They certainly do know how to twirl their tutus! 🙂