Hypsizigus elm (Hypsizygus ulmarius)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Lyophyllaceae (Lyophilic)
- Genus: Hypsizygus (Gipsizigus)
- Species: Hypsizygus ulmarius (Hypsizygus elm)
- Other names for the mushroom:
- Row elm
- Oyster mushroom elm
- Lyophillum elm
Synonyms:
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Row elm
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Oyster mushroom elm
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Lyophillum elm
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Lyophyllum ulmarium
External description
Hat: The diameter of the cap of the elm gypsygus is usually 5-10 cm, sometimes up to 25 cm. The cap is fleshy, at first convex, with a curled edge, then prostrate, sometimes eccentric whitish, light beige, covered with characteristic 'watery' spots. The pulp is white, firm, with a distinct 'ordinary' odor.
Plates: Slightly lighter than caps, frequent, adherent with a tooth.
Spore powder: White.
Stem: 4-8 cm long, up to 2 cm thick, often curved, fibrous, cap color or lighter, with age or with a cavity, may be pubescent at the base.
Spread
Gypsizigus elm occurs in August-September both on decaying wood and on the soil at the roots of living trees. Like many other members of this genus, it is often found in large families.
Similar species
Watery-waxy spots on the cap do not allow this mushroom to be confused with something.
Edibility
Normal edible mushroom.
Remarks
It was a great dry land. Black dust billowed from under my feet at every step. And this was in the once damp and dark linden forest! .. There were no mushrooms at all. Only at the base of the old linden tree a family of white, strong, surprisingly juicy leeches nestled –
Photo of the fungus Gipsizigus elm from the recognition questions:
2016.12.15 
2016.10.15 
2016.09.30 Vladimir 
2019.01.14 Marina 
2018.10.02 Vitalij 
2018.12.12 Novel
