Gray lamellar honey fungus (Hypholoma capnoides)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)
- Genus: Hypholoma
- Species: Hypholoma capnoides (Gray lamellar honey fungus)
- Other names for the mushroom:
- False foil seroplate
- Poppy honey
- Poppy
- Gifoloma poppy
- Gifoloma ocher-orange
Synonyms:
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False foil seroplate
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Poppy honey
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Poppy
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Gifoloma poppy
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Gifoloma ocher-orange
Seroplate honey fungus (Latin Hypholoma capnoides) is an edible mushroom from the genus Hypholoma of the Strophariaceae family.
Cap of gray-lamellar honeydew: 3-7 cm in diameter, from hemispherical in the youngest mushrooms to convex-outstretched in maturity, often with remnants of a private veil along the edges. The cap itself is hygrophilous, its color strongly depends on moisture: in dry mushrooms it is dull yellow with a more saturated middle, in wet mushrooms it becomes brighter, light brown. As it dries, it begins to brighten symmetrically from the edges. The flesh of the cap is thin, whitish, with a faint odor of dampness.
Plates: Frequent, adherent, white-yellowish in young fruiting bodies, acquiring the characteristic color of poppy seeds as they mature.
Spore powder: Brownish purple.
The stalk of the honeydew honeydew: 5-10 cm in height, 0.3-0.8 cm in thickness, cylindrical, often curved, with a rapidly disappearing ring, yellow in the upper part, rusty-brown in the lower part.
Distribution: Gray-lamellar honey fungus is a typical tree fungus. Its fruiting bodies grow in bunches on stumps and roots hidden in the ground. It grows only in coniferous forests, most often on pine and spruce, both in the lowlands and high in the mountains. It is especially abundant in mountain spruce forests. The honeydew is common throughout the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere. You can collect it from spring to autumn, and often in mild winters. It grows like a honey agaric, in large intergrowths, meeting, perhaps, not so often, but quite abundantly.
Similar species: Several common species of the genus Hypholoma, and also, in some cases, summer honey fungus, are similar to the seroplate honeydew. It is, first of all, a poisonous pseudo-foam (hypholoma) sulfur-yellow with yellow-green plates, a cap with sulfur-yellow edges and a sulfur-yellow pulp. Next comes the pseudo-froth – brick-red hypholoma (H. sublateriiium) with yellow-brown plates and a brown-red cap, growing in bunches in summer and autumn in deciduous forests and outside the forest, especially on oak and beech stumps. Even without knowing the mushroom, it is only by formal signs that Hypholoma capnoides can be distinguished from a sulfur-yellow mushroom (Hypholoma fasciculare): that one has green plates, and that of a seroplastic one is poppy-gray. The rooted hypholoma (Hypholoma radicosum) mentioned in some sources, in my opinion, is completely different.
Edible: Seroplate honey fungus has a reputation for being a good edible mushroom. In my opinion, it is very similar to the summer mushroom; old specimens acquire a musty, raw taste.
Video about mushroom Seropilate mushroom:
Remarks Gray-lamellar honey mushroom – a good edible mushroom is distinguished by its blue-gray, poppy-seed-colored, plates, yellow-brown cap, whitish flesh and pleasant taste.
The seroplate honey fungus was and remains the 'second summer honey fungus' for me. When we were introduced, they told me so – here they say you are another summer mushroom that grows on pine stumps. I believed, which, however, I still do not regret. What? ..
Photo of the mushroom Seroplamellar mushroom from the questions in recognition:
2019.04.06 
2017.01.27 
2017.12.15 Sergey 
2019.10.18 Facil 
2016.11.08 Sergey 
2017.01.17 Irina
