Volvarilla mushroom and its photo species - beautiful and mucous head
Below you will receive information about the most common types of this fungus - beautiful and silky volvarielle. Learn about doubles, the halo of distribution and application. Also for your attention are photos of silky and mucous head volvariels.
Beautiful volvarilla (mucous head)
Category: conditionally edible.
Beautiful volvarilla mushroom (mucous head) is the largest representative of its kind.
Hat Volvariella gloiocephala (diameter 6-17 cm): white or grayish, less often brownish. In young mushrooms it has the shape of a small chicken egg, in the rest - a bell with strongly lowered edges and a tubercle in the center. Dry and velvety to the touch, in wet weather covered with sticky mucus.
Beautiful volvarilla leg (height 4-22 cm): usually grayish white or dirty yellow, solid, without a ring.
It has the shape of a cylinder, and at the base is a tuber. The young mushroom feels felt to the touch, with time it becomes smooth.
Records: pinkish or light brown, frequent and wide, rounded.
Pulp: white and very loose, without a pronounced odor.
Volvarella doubles: gray float (Amanita vaginata) and fly agaric white. From a gray float, the volvarilla is distinguished by a grayish hat and saturated pink plates. And almost all fly agarics have a ring on their leg.
When growing: from mid-July to almost the end of October in the temperate zone of the Eurasian continent and in the Far East.
Where can I find: on garbage and dunghills, rotten bark or in fresh hay.
Eating: after 10-15 minutes of boiling. It is considered conditionally an edible fungus; it is not of interest for cooking.
Application in traditional medicine: not applicable.
Other names: mucous volvarilla, mucous head volvarilla, viscous cap volvariella, mucous head volvolla.
Silky volvarilla mushroom
Category: conditionally edible.
Silvarian volvarilla hat (Volvariella bombycina) (diameter 6-22 cm): fibrous, white or yellowish, in the shape of a cone or bell, sometimes with tubercles over the entire surface. To the touch silky.
Leg (height 6-16 cm): white, cylindrical, tapers from the bottom up. Very dense, fibrous, with a small tuber at the base.
Records: frequent and loose, white or slightly yellowish.
Pulp: fleshy, white in young mushrooms, yellowish in old ones. No special smell at the place of cut or break.
Silvarian doubles: white float (Amanitopsis alba), but it does not grow on trees.
When growing: from the beginning of July to the end of September in the northern part of the Eurasian continent.
Where can I find: in deciduous forests, on weakened trees, often next to elms, lindens, aspen and poplar trees.
Eating: although it applies to conditionally edible mushrooms, can be consumed fresh or pickled.
Application in traditional medicine: not applicable.
Other names: volvarella bombicin.
