It was supposed to be a lazy afternoon. No hiking, just a few photos of water and trees and maybe a coffee at Brown's Bay if the restaurant was still open. (Yes, barely; they close for the season this week.) I wasn't even wearing proper bush-whacking shoes. But then, at the end of the road beside the last cabin, now shuttered for the winter, I found these:
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| Waxy cap, probably Witches' hat, Hygrocybe singeri group. |
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| Another, showing the blackening conical tip. |
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| Not sure if this is another, or a related species. |
These used to be known as Hygrocybe conica, but this turned out to be a group of similar species. The cap can be yellow or red or orange, blackening on the tip; the stem yellow to greenish, stripy. They grow in conifer or mixed forests; here, most of the trees were red cedars.
My new mushroom guide adds, "Broom and cat not included." Good to know.
I hadn't seen these mushrooms before, and there they were, a large patch of them. So I was trapped; the hillside trail opened up just beyond, and there were more mushrooms, pink and brown and white and black and yellow; more, and even more. I never got back for that coffee. I'm still processing photos; I'll post them, starting tomorrow.
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Iba a ser una tarde de descanso; no iba a seguir senderos difíciles, nada más una vuelta por la carretera para sacar una que otra foto de bosques y agua, y tal vez tomar un café en Brown's Bay si es que el restaurante seguía abierto. (Y si, apenas; cierran durante el invierno, empezando esta semana.) Ni siquiera llevaba zapatos adecuados para andar en el bosque.
Pero, llegando a la última cabaña, ahora envuelta en lona para protegerla contra el invierno, vi estos honguitos:
- Uno de los sombreros de cera, probablemente Sombrero de bruja, grupo Hygrocybe singeri.
- Otro, mostrando la punta del sombrero, que se vuelve negra con el tiempo.
- No sé si es otro de la misma especie, u otro del mismo género.




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