Hygrocybe cantharellus (Schw.) Fr.
Photograph by R. E. Halling, © 2003
This brightly colored mushroom is widespread and infrequently encountered on wet mossy soil or litter in the southern montane Quercus forests of Costa Rica. The pigments are often redder and quite intense in young specimens, but fade more to yellow with age.
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