Citrine Waxcap
Hygrocybe citrinovirens
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Colour
Habitat
Status
How to Identify Citrine Waxcap
| Cap | Pale lemon, sometimes green-tinged yellow, up to 10cm in diameter. Often splits as the fruit body matures. Quite dry in texture. |
| Gills | White, turning pale yellow with age. Widely spaced. |
| Stem | Similar in colour to the cap, sometimes fibrous in texture. |
| Spores | White |
Where to find them?
Find these distinctive waxcaps in low-nutrient grassland habitats – they are equally at home in upland sheep-grazed pastures as they are in urban cemeteries with mown grass.
Don’t mistake it with
There are several other species of yellow waxcaps in the UK – keep an eye out for the light yellow or almost green tinge of this species.
Things you might not know
The Latin name “citrinovirens” comes from “citrinus” meaning lemon yellow, and “virens”, meaning green!
These are both good descriptions of the colour of this waxcap species.
