Mushroom Man Survivors - Hygrocybe psittacina Traditional Cache
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Mushroom Man Survivors - Hygrocybe psittacina
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The Mushroom Man series has been designed to be fun and also show you some of the fungi which is in your area. Most fungi only come out in the autumn, but the caches can be enjoyed all year round. At no point on this series should unknown mushrooms be eaten. This is part 10 of the Mushroom Man series.
Hygrocybe psittacina, commonly known as the Parrot Toadstool or Parrot Waxcap, is a colourful member of the genus Hygrocybe, the waxcaps, found across Northern Europe. Originally described as Hygrophorus psittacinus, there have been at least two subspecies described, H. psittacina var. psittacina and H. psittacina var. perplexa, which was initially described as a separate species H. perplexa. The bright green colour of this fungus is not due to chlorophyll; fungi do not possess this chemical. The Parrot Toadstool is a small mushroom, with a convex to umbonate cap 1-3 centimetres (?-1 in) in diameter, which is green when young and later yellowish or even pinkish tinged. The 2-4 cm stipe is green to greenish yellow. The broad adnate gills are greenish with yellow edges and spore print white. The green colouring persists at the stem apex even in old specimens. [edit] Distribution and habitat H. psittacina var. psittacina is widely distributed in grasslands in Western Europe, Iceland, Greenland, the Americas, South Africa and Japan, being found in late summer and autumn. In Europe it is apparently in decline due to the degradation of habitats. Early Australian records of this form have been found to be the similar green toadstools Hygrocybe graminicolor or H. stevensoniae on reexamination.
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