Sarcosoma globosum (Sarcosoma globosum) photo and description

Sarcosoma globosum

Sarcosoma spherical is an amazing fungus of the Sarcosoma family. It is an ascomycete fungus.

It likes to grow in conifers, especially preferring pine forests and spruce forests, among mosses, in the fall of needles. Saprophyte.

Season – early spring, end of April – end of May, after the snow melts. The time of appearance is earlier than lines and morels. The fruiting period is up to one and a half months. It is found in the forests of Europe, on the territory of our country (Moscow region, Leningrad region, as well as Siberia). Experts note that the spherical sarcosome does not grow every year (they even give numbers – once every 8-10 years). But mushroom experts from Siberia claim that in their area sarcosomes grow annually (depending on weather conditions, sometimes more, sometimes less).

Sarcosoma spherical grows in groups, mushrooms often “hide” in the grass. Sometimes fruiting bodies can grow together with each other in two or three copies.

Fruiting body (apothecium) without stem. It has the shape of a ball, then the body takes the form of a cone or barrel. Bag-like, to the touch – pleasant, velvety. In young mushrooms, the skin is smooth, at a more mature age – wrinkled. Color – dark brown, brown-brown, may be darker at the base.

There is a leathery disk, which, like a lid, closes the gelatinous contents of the sarcosome.

It belongs to inedible mushrooms, although in a number of regions of our country it is eaten (fried). Its oil has long been used in folk medicine. They make decoctions, ointments from it, drink it raw – some for rejuvenation, some for hair growth, and some just use it as a cosmetic.

Rare mushroom, listed in The Red Book some regions of Our Country.