Grooved talker (Clitocybe vibecina)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Tricholomataceae (Tricholomaceae or Ordinary)
- Genus: Clitocybe (Clitocybe or Talker)
- Species: Clitocybe vibecina (Grooved talker)
Synonyms:
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Greyish talker
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Talker Lange
- Eastern Talker
Hat: diameter of the cap is 1.5-5 cm. The hat is round, slightly convex at first and concave, extended later. Slightly funnel-shaped, with a dark umbilical depression in the middle. The hat is grayish-brown or grayish-white in color, which fades over time. The surface is smooth and dry, the constitution is watery. In dry weather, the cap can wrinkle and become creamy, in wet weather it becomes striped at the edges.
Plates: frequent, narrow, of various lengths. Since the time of the record, they have descended somewhat on the leg. Grayish or whitish in color, and sometimes grayish-brownish.
Leg: the leg is straight or curved, flattened or cylindrical. It becomes hollow with age. In the lower part it is grayish, in the upper part with a whitish powdery coating. At the base of the leg with white fluff. In dry weather, the leg becomes brown.
Flesh: The flesh is whitish in color, becoming grayish in wet weather. The taste is mealy, soft. Can be rancid and starchy unpleasant. The smell is slightly mealy.
Spores are smooth, colorless, elliptical. Spores are not cyanophilic, that is, they practically do not stain with methylene blue. Inside, spores can be homogeneous or with uneven lipid droplets.
Spore powder: white.
Distribution: Grooved talker is rare. Usually grows in groups in pine forests. Growing time November-January. Prefers dry sparse coniferous forests up to heather wastelands. Sometimes found in deciduous forests – beech, oak, birch. As a rule, forms fruiting bodies on spruce and pine litter. Prefers poor acidic soils. It can also be found on the remains of coniferous bark and in moss.
Edible: mushroom Grooved talker – inedible.
Similarity: 
Low-odor talker (Clitocybe ditopa)
differs in a cap covered with a grayish or whitish bloom with a non-striped edge, smaller spores and a shorter stem. 
Pale-colored talker (Clitocybe metachroa)
occurs mainly on leaf litter and has no flour odor.
Note: Talkers are the most common genus in Europe. It unites about a hundred species that are very similar to each other. It is quite difficult to determine this species, since the color of the fruit body changes significantly depending on the amount of moisture contained in it. Among the talkers there are also edible species, there are low quality, there are those about which practically nothing is known, and there are also highly poisonous species. The poisonous species, as a rule, include white mushrooms: a waxy talker and a whitish talker.
