Edible cobweb (Cortinarius esculentus)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Cortinariaceae (Spiderwebs)
- Genus: Cortinarius (Spiderweb)
- Type: Cortinarius esculentus
Bbw
Spider web edible or bbw (Cortinarius esculentus) is an edible mushroom of the Cortinariaceae family.
head fleshy, dense, with a thin, turned-in edge. Later it becomes flat-convex, even depressed. The surface of the cap is smooth, moist, watery, whitish-grayish in color, 5-8 cm in diameter. Records wide, frequent, adhering to the stem, clay-colored. The leg is even, dense, whitish-brown, in the middle with the remnants of a cobweb pattern, later disappearing, 2-3 cm long and 1,5-2 cm thick.
Pulp thick, dense, white, pleasant taste, mushroom smell or slightly pronounced.
spore powder yellow-brown, spores 9–12 × 6–8 µm in size, ellipsoidal, warty, yellow-brown.
Season September October.
Areal Distributed in the European part of Our Country, in the forests of Belarus. Settles in coniferous forests.
It has a sweet taste and a pleasant mushroom smell.
similarity. The edible cobweb can be confused with the edible cobweb diverse, from which it differs in a lighter color and places of growth.
Edibility
The edible cobweb is eaten fried or salted.