Hygrocybe pratensis    (Pers.:Fr.) Murrill 

common name(s) : Meadow Waxcap 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Hygrophoraceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Hygrophoraceae  

synonyms: Cuphophyllus pratensis, Camarophyllus pratensis, Hygrophorus pratensis, Hygrocybe pratensis-pratensis 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Agaricus ficoides, Hygrophorus ficoides, Agaricus pratensis, Psalliota pratensis)  

edibility : edible, good

photo gallery of  Hygrocybe pratensis
photo gallery of  Hygrocybe pratensis potential confusions with  Hygrocybe pratensis toxicity of Hygrocybe pratensis genus Hygrocybe  

The cap is tawny-brown orange. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is cream, without ring.

The flesh is cream to orange, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is pleasant; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are cream to orange, decurrent, distant . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, on a rather calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 12 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 10 mm (between 3 and 15 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : top-shaped, gills paler than cap

Hygrocybe pratensis is rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Hygrocybe pratensis in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Hygrocybe pratensis in the forest of Rambouillet



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