Pale-colored talker (Clitocybe metachroa)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Tricholomataceae (Tricholomovye or Ryadovkovye)
- Genus: Clitocybe (Clitocybe or Govorushka)
- Type: Clitocybe metachroa (Pale-colored talker)
- Gray talker
- Clitocybe raphaniolens
Pale-colored talker (lat. Clitocybe metachroa) is a species of mushrooms included in the genus Talker (Clitocybe) of the family Ryadovkovye (Tricholomataceae).
head 3-5 cm in diameter, at first convex, tuberculate, with a curved edge, then prostrate, depressed, deeply pitted, with a fenced edge, hygrophanous, slightly sticky in wet weather, at first grayish-ashy, as if with a whitish coating, then watery, grayish -brownish, brightens in dry weather, whitish-grayish, whitish-brownish with a distinctly dark center.
Records frequent, narrow, first adherent, then descending, pale gray.
spore powder whitish grayish.
Leg 3-4 cm long and 0,3-0,5 cm in diameter, cylindrical or narrowed, hollow, first grayish with a whitish coating, then grayish-brown.
Pulp thin, watery, greyish, without much odor. Dried specimens have a slight unpleasant musty odor.
Distributed from the second half of August to November (late species) in coniferous and mixed forests (spruce, pine), in groups, not often.
Similar to Govorushka grooved, which has a noticeable floury smell. In youth, with the winter talker (Clitocybe brumalis).
Considered a poisonous mushroom