Edible strobiliurus (Strobilurus esculentus)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Physalacriaceae (Physalacriae)
- Genus: Strobilurus (Strobiliurus)
- Type: Strobilurus esculentus (Edible strobilurus)
- Strobilurus succulent
Hat:
at first, the cap has the shape of a hemisphere, then, as it matures, it becomes prostrate. The cap is three inches in diameter. The color varies from light brown to dark shades. The hat is slightly wavy along the edges. Adult mushrooms have a small conspicuous tubercle. In wet weather, the surface of the cap is slippery. In dry – matte, velvety and dull.
Records:
not frequent, with intermediate plates. The plates are whitish at first, then acquire a grayish tint.
Spore powder:
light cream.
Leg:
quite thin, only 1-3 mm thick, 2-5 cm high. Rigid, hollow, in the upper part of a lighter shade. The stem has a root-like base with woolly strands ingrown into the stem. The surface of the stem is yellow-brown, ocher, but under the ground it is pubescent.
Disputes:
smooth, colorless in the form of an ellipse. Cystidia rather narrow, blunt, fusiform.
Pulp:
dense, white. The pulp is very small, it is thin, has a pleasant aroma.
Strobiliurus edible resembles the root pseudohyatula edible. Psvedagiatulu is characterized by rounded, wide cystids.
As the name implies, Strobiliurus mushroom – edible.
Edible strobiliurus is found exclusively in spruce, or mixed with spruce forests. Grows on spruce cones germinated in the soil and cones lying on the ground in places of high humidity. Fruiting in early spring and late autumn. Several fruiting bodies are formed on the cones.
Video about the mushroom Strobiliurus edible:
The word esculentus in the name of the mushroom means “edible”.