Another day, another mushroom.

Another day among the dunes, with my eyes firmly on the ground, on teh look out for interesting fungi.

This little beauty is a species of waxcap, grassland saprophytes that obtain their nutrition from decaying organic matter. According to the field guides separating the various small red, orange or yellow waxcaps is notoriously difficult, and many of them cannot be identified with certainty without resorting to microscopic analysis. However, given that I found it among the dunes I am pretty confident that it is the Dune Waxcap Hygrocybe conicoides, which occurs in short grass mainly on coastal sand dunes - particularly on the edges of dune slacks and beside sandy paths across dunes.