Mycena pure (Mycena pura)

Systematics:
  • Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
  • Family: Mycenaceae (Mycenaceae)
  • Genus: Mycena
  • Type: Mycena pura (Mycena pure)
  • Garlic agaric
  • Pure gymnopus

Hat: at first it has the shape of a hemisphere, then it becomes wide-conical or obtusely bell-shaped to convex, prostrate. Mature mushrooms sometimes with a raised edge. The surface of the cap is slightly slimy, pale gray-brown in color. In the center of a darker shade, the edges of the cap are striped translucent, furrowed. Hat diameter 2-4 cm.

Records: quite rare, condescending. Can be narrow adherent or adherent wide. Smooth or slightly wrinkled, with veins and transverse bridges at the base of the cap. White or grayish white. On the edges of a lighter shade.

Spore Powder: white color.

Micromorphology: Spores are elongated, cylindrical, club-shaped.

Leg: Inside hollow, fragile, cylindrical. Leg length up to 9 cm. thickness – up to 0,3 cm. The surface of the leg is smooth. The upper part is coated with a matte finish. A fresh mushroom releases a large amount of watery liquid on a broken leg. At the base, the leg is covered with long, coarse, whitish hairs. Dried specimens have shiny stems.

Pulp: thin, watery, grayish color. The smell of the mushroom is a bit like a rare, sometimes pronounced.

Mycena pure (Mycena pura) is found on the litter of dead hardwood, grows in small groups. It is also found on mossy trunks in a deciduous forest. Sometimes, as an exception, it can settle on spruce wood. A common species in Europe, North America and Southwest Asia. It bears fruit from early spring to early summer. Sometimes seen in autumn.

It is not eaten due to an unpleasant odor, but in some sources, the mushroom is classified as poisonous.

Contains Muscarine. Considered slightly hallucinogenic.

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