22/Sep/2026 (🌅🌇), 2:42 PM
Soodla forest, Anija, Harju, Eesti
Mixed (conifer dominant) forest woodland edge damp waxcap grassland, in sandy soil
59°23'15.3"N 25°23'43.2"E
🌡️ 14°C ⛅ Scattered clouds 💨 Wind 40° NE->SW, 20 km/h
Original Instagram postHygrocybe acutoconica
Persistent Waxcap
- Scientific identification
- Hygrocybe acutoconica (Clem.) Singer
- Family
- Hygrophoraceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Hygrocybe
Names across languages
- English: Persistent Waxcap
- German: Safrangelber Saftling
- Finnish: Suippuvahakas
- Estonian: Kollane vesinutt
- Russian: Гигроцибе остроконическая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-22.
Hymenium
Gills broad, moderately spaced; pale yellow to lemon-yellow, becoming yellow-orange with maturity
Cap
Sharply conical to conical-campanulate, later broadly conical with pointed umbo; smooth, viscid when moist; lemon-yellow, golden-yellow; margin translucent-striate and often splitting with age
Hymenium Attachment
Adnexed to free
Stipe
Slender, cylindrical, sometimes twisted or longitudinally grooved; yellow to orange with a whitish base; smooth to finely fibrillose; ring absent
Spore print
Spore print white
Description
Symbiotic with higher plants and mosses; associated with unimproved nutrient-poor grasslands, meadows; neutral to calcareous soils; solitary or scattered; summer to late autumn
Edibility
Not recommended
Fruit body
Fruit body small to medium; stipe ~2–8(–13) cm long and ~0.3–1.2 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~1–6 cm
Flesh
Yellowish, thin and fragile, does not blacken
Chemical reactions
KOH negative on cap surface
Odour
Indistinct
Taste
Indistinct
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, inamyloid, ~9–12 × 5–7 µm; basidia predominantly 4-spored; hymenial cystidia absent; lamellar trama parallel; pileipellis an ixocutis
Overview
Persistent yellow-orange conical waxcap that does not blacken
1951). Lilloa 22: 153 (’1949′).
Field encounters
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