I have loved mushrooms since childhood, and I have also been a programmer for a long time. Combining these two hobbies, I wrote this website. Previously, I had two other mushroom identification sites, which I sold. Only one of them remains accessible today. My goal with the current site is to create an easy-to-use search and identification platform that works great both in the field and at home. I hope it brings joy to others.
Bartha László
Species flashcards
Practice area: created for the 303-species Hungarian mushroom inspector requirement. It is not an official examination; requirements in other countries may differ.
Pink Waxcap
Porpolomopsis calyptriformis
not edible
Protected · 10 000 Ft
- Habitat: grassy
- Fruiting season: July – October
- Cap: flat conical fibrous cracked
- Stem: cylindrical
- Fertile layer: adnate free sparse
Description
Cap: 2-7 cm in diameter; pointed, conical, often irregularly lobed, spreading with age, its margin often curling up and cracking, but its center remains sharply umbonate; pale purplish when young, pinkish, flesh-pinkish, fading to whitish with age, darker when wet, lighter when dry; surface finely fibrous.
Gills: Free or adnate, wide; whitish or pale cap-colored.
Stem: 3-12 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm thick; cylindrical, slender; whitish; surface bare or finely fibrous, but not slimy.
Flesh: Soft, brittle; whitish; smell and taste not characteristic.
Spore: White, 6-9 x 4-7μm, ellipsoid, smooth; Usually 4-spored.
Occurrence: From July to October; in fresh, natural, unfertilized, acidic grasslands, hay meadows, very rare, protected species. Known from Europe, North America and North Asia (Japan). Widely distributed in Europe, but very rare, only locally occurring species. In Switzerland, it also appears at 1800 m above sea level. In Hungary, it is only known from the Vend-vidék region.
Edibility: Not edible.
Confusion: Similar in color to the poisonous rosy bonnet, but this species does not grow in grassy areas, but in forests, and emits a strong radish smell.
Note: Due to the fertilization or change of use of natural grasslands, this strikingly beautiful mushroom species is endangered both internationally and nationally, as it demonstrably disappears from its habitats. Throughout Europe, but especially in Denmark, England, Germany, the Hygrocybe species have outstanding nature conservation policy significance. It is included in the European conservation proposal of the European Council for Conservation of Fungi. calyptra is of Greek origin, meaning hood, cowl. formis means - shaped.
Species description: In 1838, Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803-1889) described this species and named it Agaricus calyptraeformis. In 1889, the Swiss Victor Fayod (1860-1900) placed it in the current genus, under the name still used today, Hygrocybe calyptriformis.
Taxonomy
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderAgaricales
- FamilyTricholomataceae
- GenusPorpolomopsis
- Species: calyptriformis
- Described by: (Berk.) Bresinsky (2008)
- Hungarian name: rózsaszínű nedűgomba
- Lifestyle: soil saprotroph
- Edibility: not edible
