Staining webcap (Cortinarius collinitus)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Cortinariaceae (Spiderwebs)
- Genus: Cortinarius (Webcap)
- Species: Cortinarius collinitus (Dirty webcap)
- Other names for the mushroom:
- Blue-bore webcap
- Straight webcap
- Oiled webcap
Other names:
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Blue-bore webcap
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Straight webcap
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Oiled webcap
Description: The spiderweb fungus has a cap with a diameter of 4-8 (10) cm, at first it is wide-bell-shaped with a curved edge, tightly covered with a veil below, then convex with a tubercle and a lowered edge, later prostrate, sometimes with a wavy edge. The cap is slimy, sticky, smooth, in dry weather, almost shiny, of variable yellowish color: first, red-brownish or ocher-brownish with a dark, black-brown middle, then yellow-orange-brown, yellow-ocher with a darker red-brown middle , often with dark black-brown spots in the middle, fading to pale yellow or leathery yellow with ocher center in dry weather
Plates of medium frequency, adherent with a tooth, are first pale bluish or light ocher, then clay and rusty-brown, brownish in dry weather. The cobweb cover is dense, slimy, pale bluish or whitish, clearly visible.
Spore powder brown
The leg is 5-10 cm long and 1-2 cm in diameter, cylindrical, often straight, slightly narrowed to the base, slimy, solid, then executed, lavender or whitish at the top, brownish below, in rusty-brown torn belts
The pulp is dense, medium fleshy, without a special smell, whitish, creamy, brownish at the base of the leg.
Distribution: The dirty webcap lives from late July to late September in deciduous and mixed (with aspen) forests, in aspen forests, in humid places, singly and in small groups, not often
Evaluation: Staining webcap – Good edible mushroom, used fresh (boiled for about 15 minutes) in the second courses, salted and pickled
Photo of a mushroom Spiderweb staining from questions in recognition:
2016.12.25 Boris Laryushin
