Earthy gray rowweed (Tricholoma terreum) photo and description

Earthy-gray rowweed (Tricholoma terreum)

• Row ground
• Mishata

• Row ground
• Agaric tereus
• Agaric chicken
• Tricholoma bisporigerum

head: 3-7 (up to 9) centimeters in diameter. When young, it is conical, broadly cone-shaped or bell-shaped, with a sharp conical tubercle and a tucked edge. With age, convexly procumbent, flat procumbent, with a noticeable tubercle in the center (unfortunately, this macrocharacteristic is not present in all specimens). Ash gray, grayish, mouse gray to dark gray, brownish gray. Fibrous-scaly, silky to the touch, with age, the fibers-scales diverge somewhat and a white, whitish flesh shines through between them. The edge of adult mushrooms may crack.

plates: adnate with a tooth, frequent, wide, white, whitish, grayish with age, sometimes with an uneven edge. May (not necessarily) acquire a yellowish tint with age).

Cover: present in very young mushrooms. Greyish, grey, thin, cobwebbed, quickly fading.

Leg: 3-8 (10) centimeters long and up to 1,5-2 cm thick. White, fibrous, at the cap with a slight powdery coating. Sometimes you can see the “annular zone” – the remains of the bedspread. Smooth, slightly thickened towards the base, rather fragile.

spore powder: white.

Споры: 5-7 x 3,5-5 µm, colorless, smooth, broadly ellipsoid.

Pulp: the hat is thin-fleshy, the leg is brittle. The flesh is thin, whitish, darker, grayish under the skin of the cap. Does not change color when damaged.

Smell: pleasant, soft, floury.

Taste: soft, pleasant.

Grows on soil and litter in pine, spruce and mixed (with pine or spruce) forests, plantings, in old parks. Fruits often, in large groups.

late mushroom. Distributed throughout the temperate zone. It bears fruit from October until severe frosts. In the southern regions, in particular, in the Crimea, in warm winters – until January, and even in February-March. In the eastern Crimea in some years – in May.

The situation is debatable. Until recently, Ryadovka earthy was considered a good edible mushroom. “Mice” in the Crimea is one of the most common and most popular mushrooms collected, one might say, the “breadwinner”. They are dried, pickled, salted, cooked fresh.

However, in recent years, a number of studies have been conducted showing that the use of earthy-gray rowweed can cause rhabdomyolysis (myoglobinuria) – a rather difficult syndrome to diagnose and treat, which is an extreme degree of myopathy and is characterized by the destruction of muscle tissue cells, a sharp increase in the level of creatine kinase and myoglobin , myoglobinuria, the development of acute renal failure.

A group of Chinese scientists managed to induce rhabdomyolysis in mice during experiments with high-dose extracts from this fungus. The publication of the results of this study in 2014 called into question the edibility of the earthy row. Some sources of information immediately began to consider the mushroom dangerous and poisonous. However, the alleged toxicity was refuted by the toxicologist of the German Society of Mycology, Professor Sigmar Berndt. Professor Berndt calculated that people with a weight of about 70 kg would each need to eat about 46 kg of fresh mushrooms, so that on average every second of them could feel some kind of damage to health due to the substances contained in the mushroom.

Quote from Wikipedia

Therefore, we carefully classify the mushroom as conditionally edible: edible, provided that you do not eat more than 46 kg of fresh mushrooms in a short period and provided that you do not have a predisposition to rhabdomyolysis and kidney disease.

Row gray (Tricholoma portentosum) – fleshier, in wet weather with an oily cap.

Silver row (Tricholoma scalpturatum) – a little lighter and smaller, but these signs overlap, especially considering growth in the same places.

Sad Row (Tricholoma triste) – differs in a more pubescent hat.

Tiger Row (Tricholoma pardinum) – poisonous – much fleshier, more massive.