– Cap whitish to beige.
– Gills beautiful egg-yolk yellow to apricot-coloured, distant, decurrent and waxy.
– Stem often bent or crooked.
– Flesh with a pleasant smell.
Woodwaxes
Karsten's Woodwax
Hygrophorus karstenii
NT
Near threatened
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with spruce in mossy spruce forest. Most common in northern parts of the country.
Notes
Edible, but opinions differ on the taste, some consider it good while others find the taste unpleasant.
Similar species
There are several species of white woodwaxes, but most have whitish gills. The only one with yellowish gills that may be similar is Hygrophorus hedrychii, which has an unpleasant sour smell and grows with birch.
