Brick-red Parrot Wax Cap
Description
Cap bell-shaped to convex, Ø 1-2 cm, slimy-sticky, shiny, brick-red to red-brown, paling ochre, with translucent striped margin.
Gills distant, brick-red to pink-brown.
Stem 4-5 cm x 2-3 mm, slimy, ochre to pale brick-red. Flesh watery yellow. Smell faint.
Occurrence
In old, poor grasslands on dry, calcareous loamy or clayey soil or dune sand.
Saprophyte.