Floccularia Ricken (Floccularia rickenii)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Agaricaceae (Champignon)
- Genus: Floccularia (Floccularia)
- Species: Floccularia rickenii (Floccularia Ricken)
Synonyms:
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Armillaria rickenii
- Ripartitella rickenii
Description
The hat is 3–8 (up to 12 cm) in diameter, thick, fleshy at first hemispherical with age, convex-prostrate, dry, matte, with concentrically located conical 3-8-sided warts (remnants of a common blanket) 0.5-5 mm in size, easily peel off when dry, the edge of the cap is bent, subsequently straight, often with the remnants of the bedspread. First white, later creamy white, darker in the middle, grayish straw yellow or pale lemon grayish with a downward curved edge.
Ricken floccularia plates are adherent, or slightly descending on the pedicle, thin, thick, white, then pale cream, with a lemon tint.
Leg: cap-colored, cylindrical, strongly thickened at the bottom, 2-8 cm high, 1.5-2.5 cm in diameter. Naked at the top, covered with remnants of a common blanket in the form of layered warts 0.5-3 mm in size below. The ring is located at the top of the leg and disappears quickly.
Flesh: The flesh is firm, white, does not change at the break. Smell: pleasant mushroom Taste: sweetish Spore powder: creamy, spores 4.0-5.5 × 3.0-4.0 microns, broadly oval, sometimes almost spherical, slightly pointed towards the base, smooth, colorless, often with a drop of oil.
Season and habitat
May-October. Abroad distributed in Ukraine, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia; in Russia in the Rostov and Volgograd regions, a rare species, listed in the Red Book of Ukraine and the Rostov region. In Ukraine, it grows in artificial plantations of white acacia and natural communities of Tatar maple (on the sands). In the Volgograd and Rostov regions – in forests mixed with pine.
Edibility
The data are contradictory: according to some sources it is a tasty edible mushroom, according to others – an edible mushroom with low palatability.
Similar species
There are no similar species.
Photo: Vasily from Kamyshin
