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Hygrocybe punicea.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Hygrophorus puniceus
Hygrocybe puniceus Mushroom
Ref No: 7980
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Edible
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Conical or nearly so
stem type: Simple stem
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground, Found in fields, lawns or on roadsides

Hygrocybe punicea (Fr.Fr.) Kummer Syn. Hygrophorus puniceus (Fr.) Fr. Cap 3–7cm across, irregularly bell-shaped and often lobed, deep blood-red when fresh, soon fading to orange-red, greasy. Stem 50–120 x 6–20mm, yellow flushed with red, white towards the pointed base, the surface covered in coarse fibres. Flesh white at base and in centre of stem, concolorous or yellow under the cuticle, stem becoming hollow. Taste and smell not distinctive. Gills adnexed, yellowish later becoming flushed with cap colour. Spore print white. Spores broadly elliptical, 9–12 x 5–6um. Habitat amongst short grass in fields and heaths. Season autumn. Rare. Edible. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) Distinguished from the more common H. coccineus by its larger size and the base of the coarse stem being white. Distribution, America and Europe.

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