Category: conditionally edible.
Hat (diameter 3-7 cm): usually yellowish or light brown, with a slight tubercle and often cracked and jagged edges. It has the shape of a bell, which eventually changes to almost flat. Feels dry and smooth.
Leg (height 3-11 cm): slightly lighter than the cap, hollow, dense and curved, with powdery coating along the entire length. Slightly velvety to the touch.
Records: light beige, with time become rich brown. Attach firmly to the leg.
Pulp: brownish, soft, thin, watery. Odorless, very bitter taste.
Doubles: are absent.
The water-loving psatirella mushroom grows from late August to early November in Eurasia and North America.
Other names: hydrophilic psatirella, hydrophilic chrysanthemum, spherical psatirella, watery false frond.
Where can I find: on damp stumps and the dust of dead deciduous trees.
Eating: due to low taste properties, it is practically not used.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Candoll’s Psatyrella
Category: conditionally edible.
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Hat (diameter 4-10 cm): cream or light brown, very fragile, changing over time from hemispherical or bell-shaped to almost prostrate. In young psatirella mushrooms, Candolla may have small brownish scales. The edges are wavy, covered with cracks, in the center there is usually a small tubercle.
Leg (height 4-11 cm): very smooth, usually white, occasionally brown. It has a slight thickening at the base and slight pubescence along the entire length. Like the hat, very brittle.
Records: frequent and narrow, tightly stick to the leg. Young mushrooms are light, old ones are dark brown.
Pulp: fragile, white. A barely perceptible aroma can be felt only at a very close distance.
Doubles: brown-gray psatyrella (Psathyrella spadiceogrisea), which has a darker hat and does not grow on or near trees, but exclusively in grass.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names: Kandoll’s false foam, Kandoll’s khruplyanka.
The psatirella Candolla mushroom grows from late May to mid-October in the countries of the Eurasian continent and North America.
Where can I find: on stumps, next to or on trees. Almost always found only in deciduous forests.
Eating: practically not used, as it requires complex heat treatment.
Psatyrella conical (Psathyrella conopilus)
Category: inedible.
Leg (height 6-22 cm): hollow, very fragile, white.
Pulp: thin, light brown.
Records: in young mushrooms they are gray, in old ones they are almost black.
Hat (diameter 3-8 cm): yellow, brown or brown, cone-shaped. Smooth, with small grooves.
The conical shape of the cap, common for psatyrella, with characteristic grooves, conical satyrella (Psathyrella conopilus)
Doubles: are absent.
When growing: from early August to mid-October in Europe and the Far East.
Psatirella conical grows on garbage or sawdust in parks, on roadsides. Often found in urban areas.
Eating: not used.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names: khruplyanka conical, psatirella blackish.