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Gymnopil pine is an agaric fungus belonging to the Gimenogaster family, the genus Gymnopil. Other names are moth, spruce hymnopile.
What does a pine hymnopile look like
The hat of the pine hymnopile is first convex, bell-shaped, then becomes flat. Its surface is dry and smooth, sometimes with scales, and begins to crack with age. The cap has a fibrous structure. It is darker in the center and lighter at the edges. The color is yellow, golden, ocher with brownish or brown hues. The diameter is from 8 to 10 cm.
The plates are thin, wide, sometimes accreting with a tooth. In young specimens they are light amber, in old ones they are brownish, spots may appear on them. Spore powder orange-brown, rusty.
The flesh is golden, yellow, firm, elastic, darkens immediately on the break. The smell is unpleasant, sour, reminiscent of rotten wood, sharp, bitter taste.
The leg is low, grows up to 5 cm, can be curved. Closer to the hat – hollow inside, solid at the base. Traces of the cover are visible on the surface. The color is brown at first, then gradually turns white and becomes creamy, at the break it acquires a brown tint.
The pine hymnopil is similar to other representatives of the genus
One of them – hymnopile penetrating, which has smaller fruiting bodies. The hat is first round, then becomes prostrate. Diameter – from 3 to 8 cm. The color is rusty brownish with a darker center. The surface is dry, after rain – oily. The height of the stem is about 7 cm. It is lighter, its surface is longitudinally fibrous, with a whitish coating in places. Grows on decaying pines and other conifers. Fruiting time is from August to November. Not edible, with bitter flesh.
The penetrating hymnopile is often seen, but it is not very noticeable in the forest
Juno Hymnopyle. Large, outwardly spectacular, with a yellow or orange hat, the diameter of which reaches 15 cm. Its surface is covered with scales that are tightly adjacent to each other. The leg is fibrous, thickened, with a dark ring at the top. Grows in groups at the base of stumps, under oaks, often parasitic on living trees. This hymnopile is inedible, non-poisonous, and very bitter. It used to be considered a hallucinogen.
Juno is distinguished by a ring on the leg
Gymnopil hybrid. The cap diameter is from 2 to 9 cm. At first it is strongly convex, then prostrate with slightly curved edges and a tubercle in the center. The color is orange-yellowish with lighter edges. The plates are yellowish (in mature rusty-brown), frequent, descending. The leg is darker, central or eccentric, uneven, curving, 3 to 8 cm high, 4 to 9 mm thick. The flesh is whitish at first, then becomes yellowish. Grows in groups in coniferous and deciduous forests from September to November. Prefers stumps and the neighborhood of dead wood. Inedible, tasteless.
Hybrid at a young age is distinguished by a strongly convex hat
The main differences of flammulina: velvety stem and shiny hat, growth only on hardwoods, smaller size of the fruiting body.
Winter honey agaric (flammulina) grows in large colonies only on deciduous trees
Where does the pine hymnopile grow
It is found throughout Europe (including Our Country) and North America. Fruiting time varies in different areas, falls on the period from June to October.
It grows in coniferous forests, often comes across in deciduous. Prefers deadwood, which populates in large groups, as well as rotting tree branches, stumps and their roots.
Is it possible to eat pine hymnopile
Refers to inedible. It cannot be used for food.
Conclusion
Pine hymnopil is an inedible mushroom that grows on pines and spruces. Colonies of these orange mushrooms are a very beautiful sight.
