Baggy bighead (Bovistella utriformis)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Agaricaceae (Champignon)
- Genus: Bovistella (Bovistella)
- Species: Bovistella utriformis (Baggy Golovach)
Other names:
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Bubble-shaped head
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Round golovach
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Sack-shaped head
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Rounded golovach
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Golovach is belly-shaped
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Rabbit raincoat
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Calvatia utriformis
Description: Fruit body: 10 – 15 (20) cm in diameter, round, flattened from above, fine-grained, slightly narrowed towards the base. Young mushroom – light, white, then – grayish-brown, fissured, lumpy-warty. A mature mushroom cracks, bursts at the top, disintegrates, becoming like a wide goblet with torn, bent edges.
Spore powder chestnut brown
The pulp is at first white, soft with a pleasant mushroom smell, then olive-brown, brownish
Distribution: Grows from late May to mid-September (massively from mid-July), on forest edges and clearings, in meadows, pastures, on the soil, singly, not often.
Grade: Category 4 edible mushroom, while the pulp is white, used as raincoats.
Note: The pulp of the mushroom (gleb) has a rather strong hemostatic effect. In Russia, healers stopped the blood in case of severe cuts, sprinkling the wound with green-brown powder of raincoat spores, then tightly pressed the skin of the mushroom, turned inside out, to the cut. You can store this mushroom 'adhesive plaster' for future use, cut into thin slices and use, for example, for cuts while shaving. In the forest, with small bleeding wounds, you can safely apply raincoats, applying them with the inside, sterile side. In addition, calvacin and some other substances contained in the mushroom have anti-tumor properties.
Photo of a mushroom Golovach baggy from the questions in recognition:
2017.01.14 
2017.08.22 
2017.04.29 Lily
