Psatirella is water-loving
Hat (diameter 3-7 cm): usually yellowish or light brown, with a small tubercle and often cracked and uneven edges. It has the shape of a bell, which eventually changes to almost flat. Dry and smooth to the touch.
Leg (height 3-11 cm): slightly lighter than the hat, hollow, dense and curved, with a powdery coating over the entire length. The touch is slightly velvety.
Records: light beige, with time become saturated brown. Firmly grow to the leg.
Pulp: brownish, soft, thin, watery. Without a pronounced smell, the taste is very bitter.
Doubles: are absent.
Psatirella water-loving mushroom grows from late August to early November in Eurasia and North America.
Other names: hydrophilic psatirella, hydrophilic brittle, spherical psatirella, watery false foam.
Where can I find: on damp stumps and dust of dead deciduous trees.
Eating: due to its low taste, it is practically not used.
Application in traditional medicine: not applicable.
Psatirella Candolle
Category: conditionally edible.
Hat (diameter 4-10 cm): cream or light brown, very fragile, changes over time from a hemispherical or bell-shaped to almost open. In young mushrooms, Candolle psatirella may have small brownish scales. The edges are wavy, covered with cracks, in the center there is usually a small tubercle.
Leg (height 4-11 cm): very smooth, usually white, occasionally may be brown. It has a slight thickening at the base and slight pubescence along the entire length. Like a hat, very brittle.
Records: frequent and narrow, adhering to the leg. Young mushrooms are light, and old mushrooms are dark brown.
Pulp: fragile, white. The subtle aroma can be felt only at a very close distance.
Doubles: Psathyrella brown-gray (Psathyrella spadiceogrisea), which has a darker hat and does not grow on trees or near them, but exclusively in the grass.
Application in traditional medicine: not applicable.
Other names: Candolle's False Foam
The Psatirella Candoll mushroom grows from late May to mid October in the countries of the Eurasian continent and North America.
Where can I find: on stumps, next to trees or on them. Almost always found only in deciduous forests.
Eating: practically not used, as it requires complex heat treatment.
Psathyrella conopilus
Category: inedible.
Leg (height 6-22 cm): hollow, very fragile, white.
Pulp: thin, light brown.
Records: in young mushrooms gray, in old almost black.
Hat (diameter 3-8 cm): yellow, brown or brown, conical. Smooth, with small grooves.
The conical shape of a hat common to psatirella with its characteristic grooves is satirella conical (Psathyrella conopilus)
Doubles: are absent.
When growing: from early August to mid-October in Europe and the Far East.
Conical psyterella grows on garbage or sawdust in parks, on roadsides. Often can be found in the city.
Eating: not used.
Application in traditional medicine: not applicable.
Other names: conic crust, psatirella blackish.
