Mokruha spruce

Spruce peel (Gomphidius glutinosus)

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Spruce peel (Gomphidius glutinosus)
Mokruha sticky
Slug mushroom

Spruce peel (Gomphidius glutinosus)

Systematics:

Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
Order: Boletales
Family: Gomphidiaceae (Gomphidia or Wet)
Genus: Gomphidius (Mokruha)
Species: Gomphidius glutinosus (Mokruha spruce)

Synonyms:

Mokruha sticky
Slug mushroom

Mokruha spruce

Spruce peel (lat.Gomphidius glutinosus) is an edible mushroom of the Gomphidiaceae family.

Spruce wormwood hat: Color – a kind of gray-brown-violet with slight variations, first convex, then prostrate, depressed in the center, with downward edges, with a diameter of 5 to 12 cm.The hat itself is dense, fleshy, at a young age covered with a thick layer mucus. The flesh of the cap is white, soft, the taste and smell are pleasant.

Plates: Sparse, descending, branched. The color is almost white at the beginning, darkens almost to black with age. In young fungi, the plates are covered with a mucous blanket, which breaks off as it grows and remains on the stem.

Spore powder: Dark brown, almost black.

Spruce spruce stem: Massive, up to 12 cm long, up to 2.5 cm thick, cylindrical, thickening towards the base, the same mucous as the cap, with a mucous ring, which often disappears. The flesh of the leg is yellow at the base, white-grayish on top. In mature mushrooms, the part of the stem above the ring turns dark.

Distribution: Spruce bark grows abundantly in summer and autumn in coniferous, especially spruce, forests.

Similar species: A very similar fungus, growing at the same time and in the same places, is Gomphidius maculatus. It differs, firstly, in the pulp that turns red at the break, secondly, in a smaller cap with dark spots, and thirdly in the olive color of the spore powder. This mushroom is also edible. In pines, purple moss (Chroogomphus rutilus) grows with slightly less success.

Edible: Considered a good edible mushroom in Western literature. In ours – the edible mushroom is very mediocre. So draw your conclusions—

Remarks It seems that if the spruce moss did not at times resemble a porcini mushroom, there would be much less attention to it. But it is regularly confused with porcini mushroom, hence the undeserved dislike, hence the aversion to the unexpectedly slimy mushroom. I, frankly speaking, do not even know what this wet fur tastes like. Leafing through the mushroom guides in winter, it becomes curious. But in summer and autumn, when the basket is already breaking, and mushrooms are no longer perceived as something edible, the mokruha does not cause any interest. And this, of course, is wrong.

Spruce peel (Gomphidius glutinosus)