A common mushroom. Grows in cropped grassland in summer and autumn, it reappears in the same place for many years. So called because the top (stype) has a wet-look waxy sheen that is slimy in wet weather..

There are two varieties of Parrot Waxcap, Hydrocybe psittacina var. psittacina and Hydrocybe psittacina var. parplexa which was once thought to be a different species altogether. Displaying various shades of green, orange and yellow, they are as colourful as Parrots, hence the common name. They start of very green, but that is gradually replaced by graded shades yellow and orange, leaving just a remnant green somewhere.