Grasslands, mossy lawns, woodland edges and rides, often in small groups

Edible but of little culinary value

• ▸ Conical, acutely pointed cap, bright lemon-yellow when young, fading pale as it dries or ages
• ▸ Waxy, pale cream-yellow gills, free or slightly adnexed
• ▸ Slender, hollow, shiny yellowish stem, longitudinally fibrous
• ▸ No ring or veil; thin, watery, yellowish flesh with no distinctive smell

One of the larger waxcaps, most often seen on old grassland and mossy woodland rides; the erect, sharply conical caps give it a very distinct silhouette. The epithet acutoconica ("sharply conical") describes exactly that cap.