Twine-footed strobiliurus (Strobilurus stephanocystis)

Systematics:
  • Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
  • Family: Physalacriaceae (Physalacriae)
  • Genus: Strobilurus (Strobiliurus)
  • Type: Strobilurus stephanocystis (Spade-footed strobiliurus)

:

  • Pseudohiatula stephanocystis
  • Marasmius esculentus subsp. pine tree
  • Strobiliurus coronocistida
  • Strobiliurus capitocystidia

Strobilurus stephanocystis (Strobilurus stephanocystis) photo and description

Cap: At first hemispherical, then convex and finally becomes flat, sometimes with a small tubercle. The color is white at first, later darkening to yellow-brown. The edge of the hat is even. The diameter is usually 1-2 cm.

Strobilurus stephanocystis (Strobilurus stephanocystis) photo and description

Strobilurus stephanocystis (Strobilurus stephanocystis) photo and description

Strobilurus stephanocystis (Strobilurus stephanocystis) photo and description

Hymenophore: lamellar. The plates are rare, free, white or light cream, the edges of the plates are finely serrated.

Strobilurus stephanocystis (Strobilurus stephanocystis) photo and description

Leg: thin 1-3 mm. thick, white above, yellowish below, hollow, hard, very long – up to 10 cm, most of the stem is immersed in the substrate.

Strobilurus stephanocystis (Strobilurus stephanocystis) photo and description

Its underground part is covered with dense long hairs. If you try to carefully dig up a mushroom with a “root”, then an old pine cone is always found at the end.

Strobilurus stephanocystis (Strobilurus stephanocystis) photo and description

Pulp: light, thin, without much taste and smell.

It lives exclusively under pine trees, on old pine cones immersed in the soil. Appears in spring and grows until late autumn in the entire territory where pines grow.

The hat is quite edible, the leg is very hard.

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