Blue-green Stropharia (Stropharia aeruginosa)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)
- Genus: Stropharia (Stropharia)
- Type: Stropharia aeruginosa (Stropharia blue-green)
- Troishling yar-medyankovy
- Psilocybe Aeruginosa
Spread:
Stropharia blue-green grows in groups or bunches on dead trunks and stumps of conifers, mainly spruces, pines, and firs. Less commonly, it is found on dead deciduous trees. Fruiting bodies appear abundantly in summer and autumn, both in the lowlands and in the mountains. In the grass outside the forest, in forest clearings, meadows, pastures, lawns, a rarer similar species grows – sky blue Stropharia (Stropharia caerulea). It is common in Europe and North America. Edible but tasteless.
Description:
Stropharia blue-green (Stropharia aeruginosa) – small mushrooms, similar to champignons in the way of feeding. Some species like a well-manured place outside the forest, others grow in the forest on rotten trunks and stumps, others grow on horse or cow dung. In Europe, there are approximately 18 species of these mushrooms; they all have wet slippery caps and brown or black-purple pollen. Stropharia rugosoannulata (Stropharia rugosoannulata) is bred in some countries by industrial methods, like mushrooms.
Stropharia blue-green (Stropharia aeruginosa) has a blue-green hat with ocher spots with a diameter of 3-10 cm. The plates are whitish, later purple-gray. Leg measuring 4-12 / 0,8-2 cm, slippery, pale bluish or pale greenish, under a whitish, often disappearing ring, whitish-scaly or hairy. The flesh is greenish to bluish in color. The taste is reminiscent of radish, the smell is inexpressive. Spores are dark brown, 7,5-9 / 4,5-5 im. Cystids at the tip of the plates are wavy, in S. caerulea they are bottle-shaped.
Stropharia blue-green has a slippery hat with a diameter of 3-6 cm greenish-blue or yellow-brown. The plates are whitish, later brownish. Leg size 3-8 / 0,5-1,5 cm, not slippery, greenish-blue, bluish, blue-white, scaly, with a fringed bluish vanishing ring. The flesh is whitish. Taste and smell are inexpressive. Spores are brown.
PSYCHO-ACTIVITY: absent or very insignificant.
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