Hygrocybe aurantiosplendens is an agaric (gilled fungus) in the family Hygrophoraceae. In the United Kingdom, it has been given the recommended English name of orange waxcap. The species has a European distribution and typically occurs in grassland where it produces basidiocarps (fruit bodies) in the autumn. Threats to its habitat have resulted in the species being assessed as globally "vulnerable" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It has also been reported on both the East and West coasts of North America, but it is uncertain if the American ecotypes are in fact conspecific and they may represent distinct species.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Orange Waxcap being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Hygrocybe quieta
- Hygrocybe acutoconica
- Hygrocybe intermedia
- Hygrocybe chlorophana
- Hygrocybe splendidissima
- Hygrocybe punicea
Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Agaricales
- Family
- Hygrophoraceae
- Genus
- Hygrocybe
- Species
- Hygrocybe aurantiosplendens
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