Lepiota clypeolaria (Lepiota clypeolaria) photo and description

Lepiota clypeolaria (Lepiota clypeolaria)

Hat:

The cap of a young lipeot corymb mushroom has a bell-shaped shape. In the process of opening, the hat takes on a flattened shape. A tubercle is clearly visible in the middle of the cap. The white cap is covered with a large number of woolly small scales, which, in the process of aging of the fungus, acquire an ocher-brown color. Scales stand out sharply against the background of the white pulp of the fungus. In the middle, the hat is smoother and darker. Small leathery shreds hang down its edges. Lipeot cap diameter – up to 8 cm.

Records:

The mushroom plates are frequent and free from white to cream in color, differ in length, slightly convex, located far from each other.

Leg:

The leg of the lepiot is only 0,5-1 cm in diameter, so it seems that the mushroom has a very weak leg. Color brown to white. The leg is covered with a woolen blanket and has an almost invisible cuff. The stem has a cylindrical shape, hollow, sometimes slightly expanded towards the base of the fungus. The foot of the lipeota above the ring is whiter, under the ring it is slightly yellowish. Ring membranous flaky disappears by the end of maturation.

Pulp:

The soft and white pulp of the mushroom has a sweet taste and a slight fruity smell.

Spore powder:

Whitish.

Edibility:

Lepiota corymbose is used in home cooking only fresh.

Similar species:

Lipeota is similar to other small mushrooms of the lepiota species. All mushrooms of this species are practically not studied, and it is quite difficult to determine them from 100%. Among these mushrooms there are also poisonous species.

Spread:

Lipeota grows in deciduous and coniferous forests from summer to autumn. As a rule, in small groups of several (4-6) specimens. Doesn’t come up often. In some years, quite active fruiting is noted.