Umbrella scaly (Lepiota brunneoincarnata)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Agaricaceae (Champignon)
- Genus: Lepiota (Lepiota)
- Type: Lepiota brunneoincarnata (Scaly umbrella)
- Lepiota scaly
- Lepiota brown-red
Parasol scaly refers to deadly poisonous mushrooms. It contains such dangerous poisons as cyanides, which cause fatal poisoning! It is to this opinion, unconditionally, that all sources of information about mycology and the world of fungi come.
Parasol scaly distributed throughout Western Europe and Central Asia, in Ukraine and southern Our Country and prefers to grow in meadows and parks on lawns. Active maturation occurs already in mid-June and continues until the end of August.
Parasol scaly related to agaric fungi. Her plates are wide, very frequent and free, cream-colored with a slightly noticeable greenish tint.
Its hat is 2-4 cm in diameter, sometimes 6 cm, flat or convex prostrate, with a slightly pubescent edge, creamy or grayish-brown, with a cherry tint. The cap is covered with dark scales arranged in concentric circles. In the center of the cap, the scales often merge, forming a continuous cover of a blackish-pink color. Her leg is low, cylindrical in shape, with a characteristic fibrous ring in the middle, white-cream in color (above the ring to the cap) and dark cherry (below the ring to the base). The pulp is dense, in the cap and the upper part of the leg it is creamy, in the lower part of the leg it is cherry, with the smell of fruit in fresh mushrooms and a very unpleasant smell of bitter almonds in dried and old mushrooms. It is strictly forbidden to taste lepiot scaly, mushroom deadly poisonous!!!
The scaly umbrella was found in Central Asia and Ukraine (in the vicinity of Donetsk). This fungus is also common in Western Europe. It is found in parks, lawns, meadows. Fruits in June-August.