Larch hygrophorus (Hygrophorus lucorum)

Systematics:
  • Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
  • Family: Hygrophoraceae (Hygrophoraceae)
  • Genus: Hygrophorus
  • Type: Hygrophorus lucorum (Hygrophorus larch)
  • Hygrophorus yellow
  • Hygrophorus yellow
  • A snail of the woods

External Description

First, it is bell-shaped, then opening and concave in the middle, a hat 2-6 cm in diameter, thin-fleshy, sticky, bright lemon-yellow in color, below it has rare rather thick white-yellow plates and a thin cylindrical leg 4-8 mm wide and 3-9 cm long elliptical, smooth, colorless spores, 7-10 x 4-6 microns.

Edibility

Edible.

Habitat

Quite often they are found on the soil in meadows, in forests and parks, under larches, they form mycorrhiza with a tree.

Season

Summer autumn.

Similar species

Similar to the beautiful edible hygrophor.

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