Pink lacquer (Laccaria laccata)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Hydnangiaceae (Hydnangiaceae)
- Genus: Laccaria (Lakovica)
- Species: Laccaria laccata (Lacobica vulgaris (Lacobica rosea))
Synonyms:
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Lacquer varnish
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Common lacquer
- Clitocybe laccata
Pink lacquer (lat.Laccaria laccata) is a mushroom from the genus Lakovitsa of the Ryadovkovy family.
Pink lacquer cap: The most varied shape, from convex-depressed in youth to funnel-shaped in old age, often uneven, cracked, with a wavy edge through which the plates are visible. Diameter 2-6 cm. The color changes depending on humidity – under normal conditions pink, carrot-red, turns yellow in dry weather, with high humidity, on the contrary, it darkens and reveals a certain 'zoning', expressed, however, not at all bright. The flesh is thin, the color of the cap, without any special smell or taste.
Plates: Adherent or descending, rare, wide, thick, cap color (in dry weather it can be darker, in wet weather – lighter).
Spore powder: White.
Pink varnish stem: Length up to 10 cm, thickness up to 0.5 cm, cap color or darker (in dry weather, the cap brightens faster than the stem), hollow, elastic, cylindrical, with white pubescence at the base.
Distribution: Lacoba rosea is ubiquitous from June to October in forests, on forest edges, in parks and gardens, avoiding only excessively damp, dry and dark places.
Similar species: Under normal conditions, pink varnish is difficult to confuse with anything; fading, the mushroom becomes similar to the equally faded lilac varnish (Laccaria amethystina), which differs only in a slightly thinner leg; in some cases, young specimens of Laccaria laccata are similar to meadow mushrooms (Marasmius oreades), which are easily distinguished by their white plates.
Edible: The mushroom, in principle, is edible, but we do not love it for this.
Remarks If you ever shoot a mushroom advertisement, or a mushroom advertisement, pink varnish would be the perfect model for a 'regular mushroom'. “Let's take an ordinary mushroom,” the artist will say and take a pink varnish.
However, sometimes the situation is quite different. In the midst of the drought of 2005, I was lucky to meet in a young birch forest whole hosts (or, more correctly, myriads?) Of incomprehensible whitish mushrooms. I didn't want to walk on mushrooms, I couldn't fly through the air: so I had to leave behind a rough furrow in the mushroom carpet. What kind of view it is – white from above, pink from underwear, with a crooked leg, white spores and rare plates, I did not even guess. Chance helped: having failed to achieve anything from another mushroom plucked for examination, I threw it into a bucket of water. Where he very soon turned pink, thereby giving himself away. So the mind once again prevailed over the inert nature.
Photo of the mushroom Lakovitsa vulgaris (Lacovitsa pink) from the questions in recognition:
2018.05.26 Julia 
2018.11.29 Irina Zheveleva 
2018.05.26 Julia 
2018.02.11 
2017.02.05
