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Entoloma sepium belongs to the Entoloma family, where there are up to a thousand species. Mushrooms are also known as entoloma light brown, or pale brown, blackthorn, pomelnitel, podslivnik, in the scientific literature – pink plate.
What does Entoloma sepium look like?
Mushrooms are quite noticeable due to their large size and light color against the background of grass and deadwood. Outwardly, they are also distinguished by some similarity with russula.
Cap Description
Pale brown entoloma has large caps from 3 to 10-14 cm. Semi-closed from the beginning of development, the cushion cap gradually becomes expanded. When the top increases, opens, a tubercle remains in the center, the border is wavy, uneven.
Other signs of the Entoloma sepium cap:
- color gray-brown, brown-yellow, brightens after drying;
- to the touch, the fine-fibered surface is smooth, silky;
- sticky after rain, darker in color;
- young blackthorns have white plates, then cream and pinkish-brown;
- whitish, dense pulp is brittle, flabby with age;
- a slight smell of flour, the taste is insipid.
Description of the leg
High leg of Entoloma sepium, up to 3-14 cm, 1-2 cm wide, cylindrical, thicker at the base, can bend, unstable on the litter. The young is filled with pulp, then hollow. On the longitudinally fibrous surface, small scales. The color is grayish-cream or white.
Is the mushroom edible or not?
Entoloma pale brown – conditionally edible. Eat mushrooms, boiled for 20 minutes, for frying, pickling, pickles. The broth is drained. It is noted that these mushrooms are tastier pickled.
Where and how to grow
The saucer is thermophilic; it is rare in Our Country. Distributed in the mountainous areas of Asia: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan. It grows on leaf litter, deadwood, in damp areas, under pink fruit trees: plum, cherry, cherry plum, apricot, hawthorn, blackthorn.
Twins and their differences
Entoloma sepium, depending on the degree of color, is confused:
- with the same conditionally edible garden Entoloma, grayish-brown in color, which grows in the middle lane under apple trees, pears, wild rose, hawthorn from May to the end of July;
- may mushroom, or may mushroom, with a light fruiting body of a dense structure, a club-shaped leg, which is highly valued by mushroom pickers.
Conclusion
Entoloma sepium is valued in the distribution area for a good volume of the fruiting body. But the literature notes that the species can be confused with many unstudied entoloms that contain toxins. Therefore, it is collected only by experienced mushroom pickers.