Silver Row (Tricholoma scalpturatum) photo and description

Silver Row (Tricholoma scalpturatum)

• Row yellowing
• Row carved

• Row yellowing;
• Row carved.

Silver Row (Tricholoma scalpturatum) is a fungus belonging to the Tricholomov family, Agarikov class.

The fruiting body of the silver row consists of a cap and a stem. The diameter of the cap varies between 3-8 cm, in young mushrooms it has a convex shape, and in mature mushrooms it is prostrate, with a tubercle in the central part. Sometimes it can be concave. In ripe mushrooms, the edges of the cap are wavy, curved, and often torn. The fruit body is covered with a skin with the finest fibers or small scales pressed to the surface. in color, this skin is often gray, but it can be gray-brown-yellow or silver-brownish. In overripe fruiting bodies, the surface is often covered with specks of lemon-yellow color.

The fungal hymenophore is lamellar, its constituent particles are plates, grow together with a tooth, often located in relation to each other. In young fruiting bodies, the plates are white, and in mature ones, they turn yellow in the direction from the edges to the central part. Often on the plates of overripe fruiting bodies of the silver row you can see yellowish spots unevenly distributed over the surface.

The height of the stem of the silver row varies between 4-6 cm, and the diameter of the stem of the mushroom is 0.5-0.7 cm. It is silky to the touch, thin fibers are visible to the naked eye. The shape of the stem of the described mushroom is cylindrical, and sometimes small patches of skin are visible on its surface, which are the remains of a common coverlet. In color, this part of the fruiting body is gray or whitish.

Mushroom pulp in its structure is very thin, fragile, with mealy color and aroma.

Silver ryadovka grows in forests of various types. Often this type of mushroom can be found in the middle of parks, squares, gardens, forest shelterbelts, along roadsides, in grassy areas. You can see the described mushroom as part of large groups, since the scaly row often forms the so-called witch circles (when whole colonies of mushrooms are connected to each other in large bunches). The fungus prefers to grow on calcareous soils. On the territory of Our Country and, in particular, the Moscow region, the fruiting of silver rows begins in June and continues until the second half of autumn. In the southern regions of the country, this mushroom begins to bear fruit in May, and the duration (during warm winters) is about six months (until December).

The taste of the silver row is mediocre; this mushroom is recommended to be eaten salted, pickled or fresh. It is advisable to boil the silver row before eating, and drain the broth. Interestingly, when pickling this type of mushroom, their fruiting bodies change their color, becoming green-yellow.

Often a silvery (scaly) row is called another type of mushroom – Tricholoma imbricatum. However, both of these rows belong to completely different categories of mushrooms. The silver row described by us is similar in its external features to the earthy rows, as well as to the above-soil tricholoma fungi. Very often, these varieties of mushrooms grow in the same place, at the same time. It also looks like a poisonous tiger row.