Snow warbler (Clitocybe pruinosa)
- 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 pruinosa (Snowy warbler)
Description:
Hat 3-4 cm in diameter, first convex, with a curved edge, then widely depressed with a thin lobed lowered edge, smooth, gray-brownish, gray-brown with a darker middle, waxy-shiny in dry weather.
The plates are frequent, thin, slightly descending, whitish or yellowish.
The leg is thin, 4 cm long and about 0,3 cm in diameter, cylindrical, often curved, dense, smooth, made, light, one-color with plates.
The pulp is thin, dense, stiff in the leg, light, odorless or with a slight fruity (cucumber) smell.
Spread:
The snow talker grows in spring, from May to the end of May in light conifers (with spruce), on roadsides, on litter, in groups, rarely, not annually.
Evaluation:
According to some literary information, the snow talker mushroom is edible.