Smelling talker (Clitocybe ditopa)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Tricholomataceae (Tricholomaceae or Ordinary)
- Genus: Clitocybe (Clitocybe or Talker)
- Species: Clitocybe ditopa
This mushroom has a cap with a diameter of up to 6 cm. At the beginning of its development, it is convex, but then quickly opens, becoming flat or funnel-shaped. The edges of the cap are usually tucked up at first, and then they become wavy and smooth, translucent. The low-odor talker is colored beige, brown or gray-brown and covered with a whitish or grayish waxy bloom, while the center of the cap is always darker than the edges. Drying, the mushroom becomes gray-beige in color.
The talker has wide, frequent and thin blades that differ in length. They can be from light gray to dark gray, descending or adherent.
The leg of the mushroom can be up to 6 cm long and about 1 cm thick, it is located in the center, has a cylindrical or flattened shape, and becomes hollow over time. In color, the leg is slightly paler than the cap or is similar to it, there is a whitish omission at the base, its surface can be smooth or mealy.
The weak-smelling talker has a grayish flesh with a flour taste and smell. Spores of the fungus are in the form of an ellipse or spherical, colorless, smooth, spore white powder.
It is found, as a rule, in rare groups, mainly grows in mixed and pine forests, the growth period is December-January.
You cannot eat it.
Photo of the mushroom Govorushka weakly smelling from the questions in recognition:
2017.03.07 Maria
