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Psatyrella wrinkled (Psathyrella corrugis)
- Chruplyanka wrinkled;
- Psammocoparius;
Psatirella wrinkled, which is also known as the wrinkled crackling, belongs to the Psatirell family, but earlier it was attributed to the Navoznikov family. Mushroom pickers do not consider this mushroom valuable and edible, since it has a very thin stem and cap, and it is often difficult to identify this category of mushrooms.
External Description
The wrinkled psatirella is a fruiting body consisting of a cap and a stem. In it, the leg is located in the center, has medium or small sizes.
The hat initially has a spherical shape, very thin, can be cone-shaped or bell-shaped. As the mushroom matures, it opens completely and becomes flat, while the color of the fruiting body varies from whitish to brownish. The pulp of the fungus is not too fleshy, thin, brittle and fragile.
The leg of the psatirella wrinkled is fibrous, brittle, of great length and very thin. Its color is comparable to the shade of the hat, sometimes a little lighter than it. The surface of the leg feels scaly or felt to the touch.
The remaining parts of the bedspread remain especially noticeable along the edges of the cap, taking on a film or cobweb shape. The ring on the stem is rare, mostly mushrooms from the Psatirell family do not have either a vulva or a ring.
The fungal hymenophore is represented by a lamellar type, and the plates are located under the hat either freely or slightly fused with the surface. Initially, the plates are white, but as the wrinkled psatyrella matures, they begin to darken, acquiring a purple-brown, black or brown hue. Often, the plates of a mature fungus have a characteristic difference – light edges.
In the wrinkled psatirella, the spores are smooth to the touch, have a germination time, and are either black or dark purple in color. The spores contain special components – cheilocystids, which can have a different shape – club-shaped, bag-shaped, bottle-shaped, sometimes with a beak-shaped outgrowth. The spore powder is purple, dark brown or almost black in color.
Grebe season and habitat
Pastirella wrinkled belongs to the category of saprotrophs, can grow on soil, wood residues and stumps. You can meet them in the middle of green grass, in plantings, forests and forest belts. Such a mushroom can be found both separately growing and as part of large groups.
Edibility
Mushroom pickers do not consider wrinkled psatirella an edible mushroom, since it has a low energy value due to thin caps and a small stem. Recognition of a mushroom variety is often complicated even by experienced mushroom pickers. True, some of the mushroom pickers call the wrinkled psatirella a conditionally edible mushroom.
Other information about the mushroom
The Latin name of the mushroom “psathyra” is translated as “brittle”, “fragile”. In , this mushroom is called not only psatirella, but also khruplyanka.