Green Row (Tricholoma equestre)
- 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 equestre (Green row)
- Greenfinch
- Zelenka
- Sandpiper green
- Agaric horse
- Tricholoma flavovirens
Ryadovka green – a mushroom of the genus Tricholoma of the Ryadovkovy family. It got its name for its green color, which persists even after cooking.
head greenfinch reaches sizes in diameter from 4 to 15 centimeters. Quite thick and meaty. While the mushroom is young, a tubercle is flatly convex in the center, later it becomes flatly procumbent, the edge is sometimes raised. The color of the hat is usually greenish-yellow or yellow-olive, brownish in the center, darkening over time. In the center, the cap is finely scaly, the skin is smooth, thick, sticky and slimy, especially when the weather is damp, the surface is often covered with sand or soil particles.
Records – from 5 to 12 mm wide, often located, thin, grow with a tooth. Color is lemon yellow to greenish yellow.
Споры have an ellipsoid oval shape, smooth above, colorless. Spore powder is white.
Leg mostly hidden in the ground or very short from 4 to 9 cm and up to 2 cm thick. The shape is cylindrical, slightly thickened below, solid, the color at the stem is yellow or greenish, the base is covered with small brownish scales.
Pulp white, turns yellow over time, if cut, the color does not change, dense. Worms in the pulp come across very rarely. It has a floury smell, but the taste is not expressed in any way. The smell depends on the place where the fungus grew, most pronounced if the development occurred near the pine.
Row green grows mainly in dry pine forests, sometimes it also occurs in mixed forests on sandy and sandy loamy soil, it occurs singly and in a group of 5-8 pieces. It can grow in the neighborhood with a gray row similar to it. Most often found on open ground in pine forests, when other mushrooms have already finished fruiting, from September to November until frost. The fungus is common in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere.
Ryadovka green refers to conditionally edible mushrooms, harvested and eaten in any form. Rinse thoroughly before use and handling. After cooking, the mushroom retains its green color, for which its name came from greenfinch.
Poisoning occurs if greenfinch is consumed in large quantities. Toxins of the fungus affect the skeletal muscles. Symptoms of poisoning are muscle weakness, cramps, pain, dark urine.