Gymnopilus penetrans photo and description

Gymnopil penetrating (Gymnopilus penetrans)

Penetrating Hymnopile Hat:

Very variable in size (from 3 to 8 cm in diameter), round, from convex to prostrate with a central tubercle. Color – brown-reddish, also changeable, in the center, as a rule, darker. The surface is smooth, dry, oily in wet weather. The flesh of the cap is yellowish, elastic, with a bitter taste.

Records:

Frequent, relatively narrow, slightly descending along the stem, yellow in young mushrooms, darkening to rusty-brown with age.

Spore powder:

Rusty brown. Abundant.

Leg of the penetrating hymnopile:

Winding, variable length (length 3-7 cm, thickness – 0,5 – 1 cm), similar in color to a hat, but generally lighter; the surface is longitudinally fibrous, sometimes covered with white bloom, the ring is absent. The pulp is fibrous, light brownish.

Distribution:

Gymnopyl penetrating grows on the remains of coniferous trees, preferring pine, from late August to November. It happens often, it just doesn’t catch your eye.

Similar species:

With the genus Gymnopilus – one continuous ambiguity. And if large hymnopiles are still somehow separated from small ones, simply by default, then with mushrooms like Gymnopilus penetrans the situation does not even think to clear up. Someone separates mushrooms with a hairy (that is, not smooth) hat into a separate species of Gymnopilus sapineus, someone else introduces such an entity as Gymnopilus hybridus, someone, on the contrary, unites them all under the flag of a penetrating hymnopile. However, Gymnopilus penetrans differs quite confidently from representatives of other genera and families: decurrent plates, yellow in youth and rusty-brown in maturity, abundant spore powder of the same rusty-brown color, complete absence of a ring – neither with Psathyrella, nor even you can’t confuse hymnopiles with galerinas (Galerina) and tubarias (Tubaria).

Edibility:

Mushroom is inedible or poisonous; bitter taste discourages experiments on the subject of toxicity.