Entoloma garden (Entoloma clypeatum) photo and description

Entoloma garden (Entoloma clypeatum)

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DESCRIPTION:

An entoloma’s hat has a garden diameter of 7 to 10 (and even 12) cm. In youth, it is bell-conical or convex, then unevenly spread and convex-concave, often with a tubercle, smooth, sticky in the rain, darker, in dry weather – silky fibrous, lighter. Its edge is uneven (wavy), sometimes with cracks.

The color of the cap varies from whitish-gray, beige and gray-brown to grayish-gray-brown. The plates of the entoloma are wide, rather sparse, adhering to the stalk with a tooth, with a serrated edge, of unequal length.

In youth, entoloms are whitish, then become soft pink, dirty pink or gray-brown, and in old age they become reddish. The pinkishness of the plates is the main distinguishing feature of all entoloma. A cylindrical, often curved, often twisted leg reaches a height of 10, sometimes 12 cm, in thickness – from 1 to 2 (and even 4) cm. It is brittle, longitudinally ribbed, continuous, hollow in old age, sometimes twisted, slightly under the hat furrowed.

Leg whitish, pinkish or grayish. And its slightly thickened base is lighter. The ring on the leg is always missing. The pulp of entoloma is dense or soft, fibrous, white or brownish, with a slight mealy taste and smell, or even fresh.

Pink spore powder.

HABITAT AND GROWTH TIME:

Garden entoloma grows in deciduous and mixed forests under mountain ash, birch and oak – on nutrient-rich soil, along roads, in meadows, in gardens and on urban lawns. In the garden, it often grows under fruit trees (apple and pear) and bushes of roses, rose hips, hawthorn and blackthorn.

Distributed and common in the Leningrad region and in St. Petersburg, although it grows pointwise – from the last five days of May to the end of July with the most massive fruiting in June and in wet, cool summers – and in July. Often gives not one, but several short layers. Garden entoloma rarely appears alone, usually grows in groups, often large.

DOUBLES:

There is a very similar mushroom – an edible pale brown entoloma (Entoloma sepium) with a creamy, brownish-gray and even gray-brownish-greenish cap, notched-descending plates, a white, shiny, long-fibered leg. Grows on lawns, in gardens and bushes from the end of May to June.

The main task is not to confuse these two edible entolomas with poisonous or tin entoloma (Entoloma sinuatum). The main differences between poisonous E. are: larger size (cap up to 20 cm in diameter), lighter (dirty whitish, creamy gray, grayish ocher and yellowish) hat with easily removable skin, yellowish (in youth) plates, thicker ( up to 3 cm in diameter), club-shaped leg, one-color with a hat, as well as a slight unpleasant smell of pulp. But this smell can be almost imperceptible. It is not found in the north of Our Country.

There are two more relatively similar poisonous entoloms. Squeezed entoloma (Entoloma rhodopolium) with a thin yellow-cream, gray or brownish hat and an ammonia smell. It grows from August to early October. And Entoloma spring – darker, smaller, slender and growing from the end of April to the last five days of May, that is, it does not intersect with Entoloma garden in time.

EDIBILITY:

This is a conditionally edible mushroom. Entoloma must be boiled for 20 minutes, and then put into a roast, salting or pickling. In southern Our Country, dishes from it are from the category of traditional mushroom dishes, and in Western Europe it is considered one of the best mushrooms.

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