Category: edible.
What the crowded row looks like in the photo with its description is provided below.
Hat (diameter 5-13 cm): grayish or off-white, fleshy, has the shape of a hemisphere, which over time changes to almost open, less often slightly depressed. The edges are uneven and very wavy, usually curved inward. The color in the center is much brighter, but gradually brightens significantly. In a damp forest or after rain, the smooth skin becomes slippery and sticky, occasionally it can become covered with small darkening scales.
Leg (height 4-11 cm): solid and dense, has a cylindrical shape and a noticeable thickening at the very base. Smooth skin, white on top and brownish at the base, covered with mealy flakes.
Plates: dirty yellow, darken with slight pressure. Thick, often lagging behind the leg.
Flesh: fibrous and firm, often light brown, with a powdery odor.
Twins: poisonous intergrowth (Lyophyllum connatum) and conditionally edible lyophillums – armored (Lyophyllum loricatum) and smoky gray (Lyophyllum fumosum). But the poisonous one has a lighter color, the shell one, on the contrary, is darker, and the smoky gray lyophillum is most often found in coniferous forests.
When it grows: from late August to early November in temperate Northern Hemisphere countries.
Where can you find it: in deciduous and mixed forests. Often grows in gardens and parks.
The crowded ryadovka (see photo above) got its name due to aggregates of mushrooms of various sizes, and these aggregates are usually extremely difficult to separate.
Eating: a very tasty mushroom, subject to preliminary boiling, it can be harvested in almost any form.
Application in traditional medicine: not applicable.
Other names: group ryadovka, crowded lyophillum.
