🇬🇧 snowy waxcap - 🇩🇪 Jungfern-Ellerling - 🇪🇪 Niit-võlvnutt

🇬🇧 snowy waxcap - 🇩🇪 Jungfern-Ellerling - 🇪🇪 Niit-võlvnutt - 🇷🇺 Куфофил снежно-белый 9/28/25

🆔 Cuphophyllus virgineus (Wulfen) Kovalenko
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills, decurrent, waxy in texture; whitish to pale, sometimes tinged cream
ℹ️ Cap: Convex to flat or slightly depressed with age; smooth, dry to somewhat greasy when damp; white to ivory, sometimes with brownish tints centrally
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Decurrent
ℹ️ Stipe: smooth, cylindrical or tapering at base; white to ivory, sometimes discolored near base
⚪ Spore print white
☘️🌿 Occurs in old, unimproved grassland, in woodland on mossy substrates elsewhere, neither strictly saprotrophic nor mycorrhizal, but form associations with mosses or act as biotrophic endophytes
🍽️ Edible and regarded as good (though not highly prized)
📏 Fruit body variable size, stipe up to ~7 cm long
📐 Cap ~1–5 cm up to ~7.5 cm in larger specimens
🧪 KOH reaction on cap surface is yellowish
👃 Very mild smell of coconut cookies
👅 Mild to slightly bitter/acrid
🔬 Spores: Ellipsoid, smooth, inamyloid; about 7.0–8.5 × 4.5–5.0 µm
🔤 Pale, waxy-gilled mushroom often found in mossy, unimproved grasslands