- Cap convex to expanded, cream-white, often yellowish in the centre.
- Gills decurrent, pale yellow-orange, paler with age.
- Stem white, often with a yellow-orange tinge and white-floccose near the top.
- Flesh yellowish-white, with an acidic smell.
Woodwaxes
Sweet Woodwax
Hygrophorus hedrychii
LC
Least concern
Inedible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with birch in deciduous and mixed woodland throughout the Nordic region.
Notes
The smell of Hygrophorus hedrychii, like that of several other white waxcaps, resembles the smell of the larva of the goat moth (Cossus cossus), acidic and unpleasant.
Similar species
There are several white Cossus-smelling waxcaps, but Hygrophorus hedrychii can be recognised by the yellow-orange gills in combination with the characteristic Cossus smell.
