Felt mokruha (Chroogomphus tomentosus)

Systematics:
  • Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Order: Boletales (Boletales)
  • Family: Gomphidiaceae (Gomphidiaceae or Mokrukhovye)
  • Genus: Chroogomphus (Chroogomphus)
  • Type: Chroogomphus tomentosus (Tomentosus mokruha)

Felt mokruha (Chroogomphus tomentosus) photo and description

Hat: convex, has a felt whitish surface and ocher color. The edges of the cap are even, often divided into shallow depressed parts. The lower part is lamellar, the plates descend along the stem, orange-brown in color. The cap diameter is 2-10 cm. Often with a tubercle with a thin edge lowered with the remnants of the bedspread. Dry, slightly sticky in wet weather. In dry weather felty, fibrous, ingrown. Various shades of ocher, ranging from yellowish brown to yellowish pinkish brown when dry. In some cases, the fibers become a pinkish wine color.

Pulp: fibrous, dense, ocher color. When dried, it takes on a pinkish-wine hue.

Edibility: mushroom is edible.

Records: sparse, wide in the middle part, ocher in color, then from the pores become heavy brown.

Leg: Relatively even, occasionally slightly swollen in the middle, fibrous, of the same color as the cap. The coverlet is cobwebbed, fibrous, pale ocher.

Spore powder: sooty brown. Oval spores. Cystidia fusiform, cylindrical, club-shaped.

Spread: found in coniferous and mixed forests, usually near pines. Fruiting bodies are located singly or in large groups. Meet from September to October.

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