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Hygrocybe coccinea
With a preference for unfertilised land, the Scarlet Waxcap (Hygrocybe coccinea) can be found on cropped grassland and woodland clearings. They often appear in large troops (a group).
Hygrocybe means ‘watery head’, these waxcaps are always very moist. Coccinea means bright red (as in the food colouring cochineal) . The image above shows the justification of the name.
The Crimson Waxcap
This autumn, help Plantlife find Britain’s most colourful and important fungi – waxcaps.
Byddwn yn anfon diweddariadau atoch chi ar e-bost am ein gwaith, newyddion, ymgyrchoedd, apeliadau a ffyrdd o gymryd rhan. Ni fyddwn yn rhannu eich manylion byth a gallwch optio allan ar unrhyw adeg. Darllenwch ein Hysbysiad Preifatrwydd.
