Gray Row (Tricholoma portentosum)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Tricholomataceae (Tricholomovye or Ryadovkovye)
- Genus: Tricholoma (Tricholoma or Ryadovka)
- Type: Tricholoma portentosum (Grey row)
- Podsovnik
- Serushka
- Division
- Sandpiper gray
- Row is strange
- Podsovnik
- Division
- Sandpiper gray
- Serushka
- Agaricus portentosus
- Gyrophila portosa
- Gyrophila sejuncta var. portosa
- Melanoleuca portentosa
head: 4-12, up to 15 centimeters in diameter, broadly bell-shaped, convexly procumbent with age, then flatly procumbent, in adult specimens the edge of the cap may be slightly wavy and fissured. A wide tubercle remains in the center. Light gray, darker with age, there is a yellowish or greenish tinge. The skin of the cap is smooth, dry, pleasant to the touch, in wet weather it is sticky, covered with pressed fibers of a darker, blackish color, diverging radially from the center of the cap, so the center of the cap is always darker than the edges.
Leg: 5-8 (and up to 10) centimeters long and up to 2,5 cm thick. Cylindrical, sometimes slightly thickened at the base, can be curved and go deep into the soil. White, greyish, greyish-yellowish, light lemon yellowish, slightly fibrous in the upper part or may be covered with very small dark scales.
plates: adnate with a tooth, medium frequency, wide, thick, thinning towards the edge. White in young mushrooms, with age – grayish, with yellowish spots or completely yellowish, lemon yellow.
Bedspread, ring, Volvo: absent.
spore powder: white
Споры: 5-6 x 3,5-5 µm, colorless, smooth, broadly ellipsoid or ovate-ellipsoid.
Pulp: The gray row is quite fleshy in the cap, where the flesh is white, under the skin – gray. The leg is dense with yellowish flesh, yellowness is more intense in case of mechanical damage.
Smell: slight, pleasant, mushroomy and slightly floury, in old mushrooms sometimes unpleasant, floury.
Taste: soft, sweetish.
From autumn to winter frosts. With a slight freezing, it completely restores the taste. It was previously indicated that Ryadovka gray grows mainly in the southern regions (Crimea, Novorossiysk, Mariupol), but its region is much wider, it is found throughout the temperate zone. Recorded in Western Siberia. Fruits unevenly, often in large groups.
The fungus appears to form mycorrhiza with pine. Grows on sandy soil in pine and mixed with pine forests and old plantings. Often grows in the same places as Ryadovka green (greenfinch,). According to some reports, it also occurs on rich soils in deciduous forests with the participation of beech and linden (information from the SNO).
A good edible mushroom, consumed after heat treatment (boiling). Suitable for preservation, salting, pickling, you can eat freshly prepared. It can also be prepared for future use by drying. It is also important that even very adults retain their taste qualities (they do not taste bitter).
M. Vishnevsky notes the medicinal properties of this row, in particular, the antioxidant effect.
There are a great many rows with a predominance of gray in color, we will name only the main similar ones.
An inexperienced mushroom picker can confuse a gray row with poisonous Row pointed (Tricholoma virgatum), which has a bitter taste and a more pronounced, sharp tubercle.
Earthy-gray (earthy) rowing (Tricholoma terreum) does not turn yellow with age and on damage, in addition, very young specimens of Tricholoma terreum have a private veil, which collapses very quickly.
The Gulden Row (Tricholoma guldeniae) is more attached to spruces than pines, and prefers to grow on loamy or calcareous soils, while the Gray Row prefers sandy soils.
Photo: Sergey.