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This species, the heath waxcap (Gliphorus laetus) was found further up the site and, along with vegetation such as billb...
01/09/2023

This species, the heath waxcap (Gliphorus laetus) was found further up the site and, along with vegetation such as billberry and heath bedstraw, informs us about the infertility and acidity of the soil.

The specimen below may simply be Cuphophyllus virgineus (snow waxcap) which, as the most common waxcap species, is a wel...
01/09/2023

The specimen below may simply be Cuphophyllus virgineus (snow waxcap) which, as the most common waxcap species, is a well placed bet. This specimen may also be the fruiting body of Hygrocybe pratensis var. pallida, a more rare variety of the common meadow waxcap. There are only ten records of the species on biodiversityireland.ie, with most specimens likely being misidentified. the cap was not translucent when wet, the gills where deeply decurrent and the stipe is very wide and fibrous. These observations are only stipulations and an examination of the spores is necessary.

While surveying for the StableGrass project, I found some interesting species. The site was an acidic semi-natural grass...
01/09/2023

While surveying for the StableGrass project, I found some interesting species.

The site was an acidic semi-natural grassland in the Carrigeen/Galtee mountains. The species of fungi that are generally associated with "waxcap grasslands" where mainly found in
the fields lower down where grazing was more extensive.

The more mountainous areas contained species of Galerinea, Mycena, Psilocybe semilanceata and Hygrocybe
Cantharellus (the goblet waxcap).

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