White talker (Leucocybe candicans) photo and description

Leucocybe candicans

:

• White agaric
• Agaricus gallinaceus
• Agaric trumpet
• Agaric umbilicus
• Clitocybe aberrans
• Clitocybe alboumbilicata
• Clitocybe candicans
• Clitocybe gallinacea
• Clitocybe gossypina
• Clitocybe phyllophila f. candicans
• Clitocybe very thin
• Clitocybe tuba
• Omphalia bleaching
• Omphalia gallinacea
• Omphalia trumpet
• Pholiota candanum

head 2-5 cm in diameter, in young mushrooms it is hemispherical with a tucked edge and a slightly depressed center, gradually flattening with age to broadly convex and flat with a depressed center or even funnel-shaped with a wavy edge. The surface is smooth, slightly fibrous, silky, shiny, white, becoming pale buffy with age, sometimes with a pinkish tint, not hygrophanous.

Records slightly descending, with a large number of plates, thin, narrow, rather frequent, but very thin and therefore not covering the lower surface of the cap, straight or wavy, white. The edge of the plates is horizontal, slightly convex or concave, smooth or slightly wavy / jagged (a magnifying glass is needed). The spore powder is white or pale cream at best, but is never pinkish or flesh-colored.

Споры 4.5-6(7.8) x 2.5-4 µm, ovoid to ellipsoid, colorless, hyaline, usually solitary, do not form tetrads. Hyphae of the cortical layer from 2 to 6 µm thick, with buckles.

Leg 3 – 5 cm high and 2 – 4 mm thick (approximately the diameter of the cap), hard, of the same color as the cap, cylindrical or slightly flattened, with a smooth fibrous surface, slightly felt-scaly in the upper part (a magnifying glass is needed), at the base often curved and overgrown with fluffy white mycelium, the strands of which, together with elements of the forest floor, form a ball from which the stem grows. The legs of neighboring fruiting bodies often grow together with each other at the bases.

Pulp thin, grayish or beige when fresh with white dots, becoming white when dry. The smell is described in various sources as unexpressed (i.e., practically none, and only like that), faint floury or rancid – but by no means floury. With regard to taste, there is more unanimity – the taste is practically absent.

A common species of the Northern Hemisphere (from the north of Europe to North Africa), in some places common, in some places rather rare. The period of active fruiting is from August to November. It occurs most often in mixed and deciduous forests, less often in open places with a grassy cover – in gardens and pastures. Grows singly or in groups.

Mushroom poisonous (contains muscarine).

poisonous govorushka cash (Clitocybe phyllophila) is larger in size; strong spicy smell; a hat with a whitish coating; adherent, only very weakly descending plates and pinkish-cream or ocher-cream spore powder.

poisonous the whitish talker (Clitocybe dealbata) is rarely found in the forest; it is rather confined to open grassy places such as glades and meadows.

Edible cherry (Clitopilus prunulus) is distinguished by a strong floury smell (Many mushroom pickers describe it as the smell of spoiled flour – that is, rather unpleasant. Note by the author), a matte hat, plates turning pink with age and brown-pink spore powder.

Photo: Alexander.