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Grzybiarz is a mobile app for mushroom foragers. Its on-device AI helps you spot fruiting bodies in the leaf litter and suggests a species from a photo, and the app keeps a private map of your finds. Everything runs on your phone and works fully offline in the forest without signal.

Crimson WaxcapHygrocybe punicea

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Crimson WaxcapHygrocybe punicea

Photo: (c) Alan Rockefeller, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Habitat

meadows, pastures

parks, treelines

Season

from August to November

Hygrophoraceae

3–12 cm

Season

At its peakThe peak lasts until early November and the season usually until late November.

Today · 22–28 Oct100% of peak

how often reportedpeak

Season

Aug–Nov

Peak

Oct–Nov

Reports

76Poland and neighbours

Curve from 76 observations (GBIF: Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Germany), smoothed week by week. It shows when foragers most often report the species, not how much of it grows.

Key features

The largest Polish waxcap: cap blood red to scarlet, bell-shaped, then expanded with a small umbo, sticky, fibrous-striate. Gills thick, waxy, yellow with a red edge; stem fibrous-striate, red with a white base; does not blacken.

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