Patchwork simocybe (Simocybe centunculus)
Hat: the cap is small, only 2.5 cm. In a young mushroom, the cap has the shape of a hemisphere with strongly curled edges. As the mushroom matures, the cap opens and becomes slightly convex, sometimes takes a prostrate shape, but not often. The color of the cap surface varies from olive-brown to off-gray. In young mushrooms, the cap is colored more evenly, but with age in the center the cap differs in color intensity. The cap is usually thin along the edges, with visible plates. The surface of the cap is dry.
Flesh: thin flesh with a slight indefinable odor.
Plates: not frequent, narrow, adherent to the stem, intermittent. In young fungi, the teeth of the plates are white, combined with a darker base, which creates a contrasting effect. In mature mushrooms, the plates are colored more evenly, mainly in a gray-brown color.
Spore powder: clayey, brown.
Leg: crooked leg, up to four centimeters high, 0.5 centimeters thick. The surface of the leg is smooth, in young mushrooms the leg is slightly pubescent. There are no scraps of a private bedspread on the leg.
Distribution: Fruiting Simocybe Patchwork on the remains of well-rotted trees, most likely the fungus bears fruit throughout the mushroom season.
Similarity: This mushroom can easily be mistaken for almost any superficially similar small brown mushroom growing on rotting wood. Especially all sorts of small Psatirella are similar to Simocybe. At the same time, the characteristic color of the spore powder and unusual plates, if they do not accurately indicate Simocybe centunculus, then definitely allow us to suspect that the fungus belongs to this little-known, but widespread species. The main feature of the fungus is the increased contrast of the plates. Of course, this does not guarantee that we are in front of exactly Samotsibe Patchwork, but this does not mean that we are definitely not in front of an ordinary Psatirella.
Edibility: Nothing is known about the edibility of the mushroom, but it is not recommended to try it all the same.
Notes: Of course, any small brown mushroom should not be classified as a Simocybe based solely on the color of the spores and the characteristic contrast of the plates. But, nevertheless, these signs almost completely indicate that it is Simocybe Patchwork that is in front of you.
Photo of the Shimocybe mushroom patchwork of questions in recognition:
2018.04.06
