Autumn oyster mushroom (Panellus serotinus) photo and description

Autumn oyster mushroom (Panellus serotinus)

• Oyster mushroom late
• Oyster mushroom alder
• Panellus late
• Pig willow

Hat:

The autumn oyster mushroom hat is fleshy, lobe-shaped, 4-5 cm in size. Initially, the cap is slightly curved at the edges, later the edges are straight and thin, sometimes uneven. Weakly mucous, finely pubescent, shiny in wet weather. The color of the cap is dark, it can take on various shades, but more often it is green-brown or gray-brown, sometimes with light yellowish-green spots or gray with a tinge of purple.

Records:

Adhering, frequent, slightly descending. The edge of the plates is straight. At first, the plates are white, but with age they acquire a dirty grayish-brown hue.

Spore powder:

White.

Leg:

The leg is short, cylindrical, curved, lateral, finely scaly, dense, slightly pubescent. Length 2-3 cm, sometimes completely absent.

Pulp:

The pulp is fleshy, dense, in wet weather watery, yellowish or light, friable. With age, the flesh becomes rubbery and tough. Has no smell.

Fruiting:

Autumn oyster mushroom bears fruit from September to December, until the very snow and frost. For fruiting, a thaw with a temperature of about 5 degrees Celsius is quite enough for him.

Spread:

Autumn oyster mushroom grows on stumps and remains of wood of various hardwoods, preferring the wood of maple, aspen, elm, linden, birch and poplar; rarely found on conifers. Mushrooms grow, in groups they mostly grow together with legs, one above the other, forming something similar to a roof.

Edibility:

Oyster mushroom autumn, conditionally edible mushroom. It can be eaten after pre-boiling for 15 minutes or more. The broth must be drained. You can eat the mushroom only at a young age, later it becomes very tough with a slippery thick skin. Also, the mushroom slightly loses its taste after frost, but it remains quite edible.

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