Meadow Waxcap
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A medium-sized fungus with a tawny-orange cap that has a waxy feel, found growing in fairly widespread troops on soil among short grass in pastures and meadows.
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Distribution:
Frequent from late Summer to Autumn.
Habitat:
On soil in unimproved grassland. Rarely on calcareous loam soils in scrub woodland, often associated with Corylus and Fraxinus in such situations.
Micro Habitat:
Cap:
Convex initially, becoming flattened and broadly umbonate with age, tawny buff with orange or ochraceous tinges, finally unevenly wavy, cap crazed when dry, waxy.
Flesh:
Cap flesh is thick, ochraceous, especially at the centre, stem flesh is buff, stuffed. Odour and taste not distinctive.
Gills:
Deeply decurrent, broad and distant, pallid buff or straw coloured.
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Stem:
Tapering slightly downwards, stout, concolorous with the cap but slightly paler, smooth, ring absent.