Cobweb mushrooms and their varieties

Spider webs are edible mushrooms that grow in all types of forests. They can even be eaten raw, these mushrooms are no less tasty after heat treatment, as well as in salt form. The cobwebs got their name because of the white “veil” wrapping the bottom of the cap and falling to the leg. You need to go to the forest for all kinds of cobwebs at the very end of summer and you can collect them until mid-autumn.

Mushroom Cobweb Velo Purple

Spider Web Bike Purple (Swollen) – "Cortinarius alboviolaceus" - cap mushroom from the lamellar group. The cap is up to 10 cm in diameter, the young mushroom is whitish-purple, lilac with a silver tint, then off-white. The pulp is bluish, in the middle thick.

The plates are frequent, wide, first purple, then brown. Spore powder is rusty brown.

Leg up to 8 cm tall, with tuberous swelling down, white with a purple hue, with a whitish ring-shaped stripe.

Grows in deciduous and mixed forests.

Pick time - from August to the end of September.

Before use, you need to pour over boiling water, then you can fry, salt and marinate.

Edible Spider Web Mushroom Yellow

Cobweb yellow (Cantharellus triumphans) - cap mushroom from the lamellar group. The cap is up to 12 cm in diameter, the young mushroom is round, the old mushroom is flat-convex, thick, yellowish-brown or buffy. The edges of the cap are connected to the leg of the fungus with a webbed coverlet. The pulp is whitish or light brown, pleasant smell and taste.

As can be seen in the photo, this edible spiderweb mushroom has whitish, lilac or grayish-bluish plates. In old mushrooms, they are brown, wide. Spore powder is brown.

The leg is high, more than 10 cm, at the base thickened, whitish-yellowish, dense, with several belts of red scales, the remains of the bedspread.

It grows in deciduous and coniferous forests, mainly in birch forests.

Pick time - Aug. Sept.

It is used in food in fresh, salted and pickled form. The salty spider web is not inferior in taste to loaders and serushkam.

Scaly web and his photo

Scaly web (Cantharellus pholideus). Cap mushroom from the lamellar group. The cap is up to 10 cm in diameter, convex in young mushrooms, in mature ones flat, with a blunt tubercle, scaly, brownish brown. In wet weather, mucous, sticky, shiny when dried. The pulp is white, the color does not change at the cut.

Plates of young mushrooms are light, bluish-gray, then rusty-brown. Spore powder is brown.

Leg is low, up to 2 cm, first purple, then brown, with several brown belts.

It grows in mixed and coniferous forests, mainly in mossy places.

Pick time - from the second half of July to the first half of October.

It is used fresh.

Mushroom cobweb purple (with photo)

Mushroom Cobweb Purple (Cantharellus violaceus) Belongs to the lamellar group. The cap is up to 12 cm in diameter, convex, then prostrate, dark purple, scaly. The flesh is gray-violet or bluish, fading to white.

Look at the photo: purple cobweb has wide, rare, thick plates of the same color with a hat. Spore powder is rusty brown.

Leg is high, up to 16 cm high, swollen at the base, dark purple, fibrous-scaly.

It grows in deciduous and coniferous forests, most often in pine.

Pick time - Aug. Sept.

Eaten in boiled, dried and pickled.