Glowing scales

Application in traditional medicine

Medicines (decoctions, infusions, tinctures) are prepared from foliot, which are used by traditional healers in the treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system (atherosclerosis, arterial hypertension, varicose veins, thrombophlebitis). Iron and magnesium foliot contribute to an increase in hemoglobin levels, so the introduction of these mushrooms into the diet will be beneficial for anemia and thyroid diseases.

Due to the large amount of fiber in the pulp, royal mushrooms prevent constipation. The presence of squarrosidine in the pulp of royal honey agaric makes them an indispensable food for people suffering from gout. Means from the fire in folk medicine are used as an emetic and laxative.

Due to their low calorie content, royal mushrooms are included in the diet of diabetics, vegetarians and people on a diet. It is scientifically proven that the extract of fresh golden foliot inhibits the growth of Ehrlich's carcinoma and sarcoma-180 in laboratory mice.

Scaly scales: photo and description

Lamellar fungi are considered more common than spongy fungi and have several hundred different species. Scaly scales have a rather unusual cap shape and attracts mushroom pickers with their bright appearance. Unlike other representatives of this genus, it is distinguished by the absence of a clear garlic smell.

What does scaly scales look like?

Scaly scales have a light color. The caps are covered with dense scales with darker dense scales. The flesh is quite firm and white in color. The smell is weak, the mushroom taste is practically absent. The spore powder has a brownish tint.

The peculiarity of this species is the peculiarity of the development of the plates. They pass the period of the greenish color of the plates, becoming immediately brown. The plates are narrow and frequent, adherent and weakly descending. At a young age, they are often covered with a transparent white film.

Description of the hat

The size of the cap of adult saprophytes varies from 3 to 11 cm. Its shape is either domed or broadly convex. Over time, a dense tubercle forms in the center. In young flakes, the cap bends down, forming a kind of dome. Its edges are cut and resemble a fringe at the fabric.

The surface of the scaly scales is dotted with dense scales. Their color can range from brownish to brownish. The light surface between the scales is rather sticky. Depending on the growing conditions, the mushroom may have a slightly yellowish tint.

Leg description

The scaly leg can reach up to 10 cm in height with a diameter of about 1.5 cm. It has a dense dry structure and is covered with scales in the form of annular growths. The greatest number of outgrowths is found closer to the lower part of the stem, while its upper part is practically smooth.

The color of the growths on the stem most often repeats the shade of the cap scales. They usually have ocher-brown tones. However, sometimes, depending on the growing conditions, the color of such growths can have reddish and brown shades closer to the base of the mushroom.

Is the mushroom edible or not

Like other members of its genus, the scaly one is completely edible.Unlike its relative, ordinary flake, it has practically no foreign smell. At the same time, the pulp does not taste bitter and is excellent for cooking.

There are several ways to prepare these saprophytes. The traditional method is frying and preparing main courses. In addition, flakes are excellent for pickling and pickling.

Where and how it grows

Saprophyte is very common in the northern hemisphere. It can be found in Europe, Asia and parts of North America. Most often, flakes grow in groups on tree trunks. Solitary specimens are quite rare. Among the trees on which this saprophyte grows are:

In Russia, the scaly mushroom is represented in the entire middle zone, as well as in areas of temperate deciduous forests. Among the regions where it will not work out, the Arctic, northern European regions, as well as southern regions - Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, as well as all the republics of the North Caucasus are distinguished.

Doubles and their differences

The appearance of the scale may suggest that it is inedible or even poisonous. It resembles many tubular mushrooms, the appearance of which should traditionally scare away inexperienced mushroom pickers. However, its dark scales are the hallmark that distinguishes the mushroom from many others.

The only representative of the mushroom kingdom with which the scaly kingdom can be confused is the common scaly. Adults are almost identical to each other. Both mushrooms are edible, the only difference being the difference in smell and slight bitterness in taste.

Conclusion

Scaly scales are widespread in mid-latitudes. Distinctive features of the appearance do not allow it to be confused with other representatives of the mushroom kingdom. Being edible, it is widely used in cooking.

Growing scales at home

Of all the types of flakes, it is best to cultivate mushrooms with a hint, it is also edible flake, it is also slimy flake. This mushroom is very popular in Asian cooking, especially the Japanese and Chinese, who grow hint on an industrial scale.

By the way, edible flakes can also be found in our retail network. The cans of canned mushrooms on the shelves of our supermarkets are very often filled with honey agarics. However, due to the fact that this mushroom is very unfamiliar to the domestic buyer, marketers prefer not to indicate the name of the canned mushroom, so as not to embarrass the timid domestic consumer.

For the cultivation of mucous flakes, substrates made on the basis of waste from the wood processing industry, as well as some types of agricultural production, are excellent. In other words, the nutrient medium for the development of mycelium and the appearance of fruit bodies are sawdust (primarily deciduous trees) or chopped straw, to which sunflower husks, wheat bran, chopped corn cobs, etc. are added.

The resulting substrate is sterilized by keeping at a temperature of about 100 ° C for 5 hours. For convenience and reliability, it is recommended to form small blocks from the substrate in advance, sterilizing them already in this form, and not as a total mass. Then the substrate must be moistened, bringing it to 65-70% humidity.

Mycelium can be purchased either at the gardener's shop or online. The planting rate is 5% of the substrate mass. In this case, the mycelium is planted without fail under sterile conditions and at a temperature not exceeding 30 ° C.

After that, the substrate is placed in a room (or incubation chamber) with a temperature of about 27 ° C for 2-3 weeks. At this stage, the flakes do not need lighting, but the air humidity must be maintained at about 80%.

After the specified period, the substrate overgrown with mycelium is transferred to another room, where the air temperature is about 11 ° C, and the humidity is at least 98%. In this case, the substrate needs normal air exchange, so it is no longer possible to keep it in tight bags.

As soon as the first rudiments of fruiting bodies appear on the substrate, their growth should be stimulated by increasing the air temperature by an average of 5 ° C. You can also lower the humidity a little - literally by 5-10%. At this stage, you need to provide good lighting for at least 10-12 hours a day.

Having withstood the technology, you can collect mushrooms with a total mass of up to 30% of the mass of the original substrate.

There is also an alternative method that mimics the natural conditions in which the scaly fungus grows. This is solid wood. For these purposes, a stump or deck of deciduous tree is suitable. It is best to use aspen, poplar, willow, or birch. Also, some fruit trees, for example, walnut, apple, plum, show themselves well.

The mycelium must be placed in the previously made cuts in the wood. It is recommended to make simple holes with a drill, placing them at least 15 cm apart. The cuts should be about 4 cm deep and no more than 3 cm in diameter.

Some amateur mushroom pickers also practice a very unusual method - they split the log lengthwise, pour a thin layer of mycelium into the split, and then, putting the halves together, twist them tightly with wire.

Scales (foliota, royal honey fungus, willow) are mushrooms of the stropharia family. These bright "thorny" mushrooms adorn the autumn forest. In our country, it is not customary to collect and eat foliots, but in Japan and China they are cultivated on an industrial scale.

Most of these mushrooms are inedible because they have an unpleasant taste and odor in the pulp. However, mushrooms of those species, the pulp of which is edible, are appreciated by experienced mushroom pickers and are used by them on a par with real mushrooms.

Flame and early scales

Fire scale is an inedible lamellar mushroom that grows in groups from mid-July to late September.

The peak of fruiting is observed in August-September. Most often found on stumps and coniferous wood.

The cap of the mushroom is at first hemispherical, and then convex-outstretched, with a diameter of about 10 cm. Its surface is dry and contains concentric zones composed of small scales. Colored bright yellow. The plates are narrow, adherent, first bright yellow, and then brown.

The leg is rounded, solid inside, about 8 cm high and about 1 cm in diameter. Above it is smooth, and below it is scaly. It is painted orange-yellow at the cap, and rusty closer to the base. The peduncle has a characteristic scaly ring. The flesh is thin, tender, soft in the cap, hard in the stem, yellow in color, with an unpleasant herring smell.

Flame scales are not dangerous to human health, but due to their low taste and unpleasant odor, they are not used for food.

Early scaly, or early agrocybe, is a rare conditionally edible lamellar mushroom that grows in groups from late May to mid-June. Places of distribution - forest edges, parks, vegetable gardens, rare shrubs, roadsides.

The cap of the mushroom is hemispherical, over time it becomes convex-outstretched with a small tubercle in the middle. Its diameter is about 8 cm. The surface of the cap is matte, dry, dirty yellow in color. By the end of the season, it burns out and becomes faded. Plates are frequent, adherent, white in young mushrooms, brownish-olive in mature ones. The leg is rounded, hollow inside, about 8 cm high and about 1 cm in diameter. Its surface is smooth, dry, dull, white pubescent at the base, painted white, which acquires a brownish tint in the lower part. The peduncle has a characteristic filmy ring. The pulp is thin, dense, white, with a pleasant mushroom aroma.

Early flakes are eaten after preliminary soaking or boiling. It can be fried and marinated.

Definitioner

Basidia (Basidia)

Lat. Basidia. A specialized structure of sexual reproduction in fungi, inherent only in Basidiomycetes. Basidia are terminal (end) elements of hyphae of various shapes and sizes, on which spores develop exogenously (outside).

Basidia are diverse in structure and method of attachment to hyphae.

According to the position relative to the axis of the hypha, to which they are attached, three types of basidia are distinguished:

Apical basidia are formed from the terminal cell of the hypha and are located parallel to its axis.

Pleurobasidia are formed from lateral processes and are located perpendicular to the axis of the hypha, which continues to grow and can form new processes with basidia.

Subasidia are formed from a lateral process, turned perpendicular to the axis of the hypha, which, after the formation of one basidium, stops its growth.

Based on morphology:

Holobasidia - unicellular basidia, not divided by septa (see Fig. A, D.).

Phragmobasidia are divided by transverse or vertical septa, usually into four cells (see Fig. B, C).

By type of development:

Heterobasidia consists of two parts - hypobasidia and epibasidia developing from it, with or without partitions (see Fig. C, B) (see Fig. D).

Homobasidia is not divided into hypo- and epibasidia and in all cases is considered holobasidia (Fig. A).

Basidia is the place of karyogamy, meiosis and the formation of basidiospores. Homobasidia, as a rule, is not functionally divided, and meiosis follows karyogamy in it. However, basidia can be divided into probasidia - the site of karyogamy and metabasidia - the site of meiosis. Probasidium is often a dormant spore, for example in rust fungi. In such cases, probazidia grows with metabasidia, in which meiosis occurs and on which basidiospores are formed (see Fig. E).

See Karyogamy, Meiosis, Gifa.

Pileipellis

Lat. Pileipellis, skin - differentiated surface layer of the cap of agaricoid basidiomycetes. The structure of the skin in most cases differs from the inner flesh of the cap and may have a different structure. The structural features of pileipellis are often used as diagnostic features in descriptions of fungi species.

According to their structure, they are divided into four main types: cutis, trichoderma, hymeniderma and epithelium.

See Agaricoid fungi, Basidiomycete, Cutis, Trichoderma, Gimeniderm, Epithelium.

Trichoderma (Trichoderma)

The type of cap skin, usually consists of straight, septate elements, located more or less perpendicular to the surface and laid both at the same and at different levels; the ends of the hyphae can be morphologically modified and represent dermatocystids. The surface of the cap is velvety to almost felt.

Lat. Trichoderm.

Trichoderma, in turn, is subdivided into intertwined trichoderma and irregular trichoderma.

Intertwined trichoderm (Intricate trichoderm) - trichoderm, consisting of intertwined hyphae, located not parallel to each other and forming a tomentose pubescence.

Irregular trichoderm is a trichoderma consisting of irregularly branching hyphae.

See Dermatotsistida, Hypha, Septa.

Cutis

The type of cap skin, consists of creeping non-gelatinized hyphae located parallel to the surface. The surface of the cap looks smooth.

Lat. Cutis.

See Gifa.

White-crested scaly (Hemistropharia albocrenulata)

Synonyms:

• Pholiota albocrenulata
• Hebeloma albocrenulatum
• Stropharia albocrenulata
• Pholiota fusca
• Agaricus albocrenulatus
• Hemipholiota albocrenulata

Hemistropharia is a genus of lamellar fungi, the classification of which is still somewhat ambiguous. Perhaps the genus is related to Hymenogastraceae or Tubarieae. Monotypic genus, contains one species: Hemistropharia albocrenulata, Russian name White-crested scaly.

This species, originally named Agaricus albocrenulatus by the American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1873, has been renamed several times. Among other names, Pholiota albocrenulata and Stropharia albocrenulata are common. The genus Hemistropharia strongly resembles the typical Pholiota (Foliota), it is in this genus that the white-beaked scaly was originally classified and described, and it is considered a wood-destroying fungus, like the real Foliota.
Microscopic differences: Unlike Pholiota, Hemistropharia has no cystidia and darker basidiospores.

Description

Hat: 5-8, under good conditions, up to 10-12 centimeters in diameter.In young mushrooms, it is bell-shaped, hemispherical, with growth it acquires a flat-convex shape, may be broadly bell-shaped, with a pronounced tubercle.
The surface of the cap is covered with concentrically located wide, light (slightly yellowish) lagging fibrous scales. In adult specimens, scales may be absent.
Along the lower edge of the cap, white felt hanging scales are clearly visible, forming an elegant fringe.
The color of the cap varies, the color range is red-brown to dark brown, chestnut, chestnut-brown.
The skin of the cap is slimy in wet weather and can be easily removed.

Plates: adherent, frequent, very light in young mushrooms, light gray-violet. Most sources indicate this detail - plates with a faint purple tint - as a distinctive feature of white-bellied scales. Also, young mushrooms often have white, light, oily drops on the edges of the plates. In older mushrooms, it is noted that dark purple-brown clusters can be seen inside these droplets.
With age, the plates acquire chestnut, brown, greenish-brown, violet-brown colors, the edges of the plates may be jagged.

Leg: 5-9 centimeters high and about 1 cm thick. Dense, solid, hollow with age. With a fairly well-defined white ring in young mushrooms, turned upwards, like a bell; with age, the ring acquires a somewhat "ragged" appearance, it may disappear.
Above the ring, the leg is light, smooth, longitudinally fibrous, longitudinally striped.
Below the ring, it is densely covered with large, light, fibrous, strongly protruding scales. The color of the leg between the scales is yellowish, rusty, brown to dark brown.

Flesh: light, whitish, yellowish, more yellow with age. Dense. Odor: no special smell, some sources note a sweetish or weak mushroom. Obviously, a lot depends on the age of the mushroom and the growing conditions. Taste: bitter.

Spore powder: brown-violet. Spores 10-14 x 5.5-7 microns, almond-shaped, with a pointed end. Cheilocystids are bottle-shaped.

Season and distribution

It parasitizes living hardwood, most often aspen. It can grow in tree holes and roots. It also grows on rotten wood, also mainly aspen. It is found infrequently, in small groups, in the summer-autumn period.
In Russia, it is noted in the European part, in Eastern Siberia and in the Far East. Outside Russia, it is distributed in Europe, North Africa and North America.

Similar species

In dry weather, it can look like destructive flakes.

Notes: Pholiota albocrenulata var. albocrenulata and Pholiota albocrenulata var. conica. Alas, no intelligible descriptions of these varieties have yet been found.

Photo: Leonid

Edible scale

The nutritional value of flake is low, which is why this mushroom is often referred to as inedible, and is rarely eaten. The most popular and well-known edible species is golden flake, which is rich in vitamins and very tasty, and the second most popular is herbal flake.

To prevent scaly from causing digestive problems and indigestion, boil this mushroom before use. After that, soups are cooked on its basis, fried, used as a filling for pies and vegetarian pizza, added to vegetable stews and stewed. It is recommended to use only flake caps, mushroom legs are suitable for pickling. Also, flakes are salted and added to salads.

Lumpy scale

This fungus genus of phyolites, rich in "relatives", includes more than 150 species. Almost all of them are inedible due to their inherent bitter taste, and in some species, poisons are also noted.

One of the representatives of a large family, lumpy scaly, has not yet been fully studied, so, having met her in the forest, it is better to pass by. But how do you recognize her?

Lumpy scaly (Pholiota tuberculosa)

Lumpy scales - lat. Pholiota tuberculosa

This mushroom has no other names among the people.Unless they are sometimes confused with voles or field voles, which also belong to the tropharia family. But in scientific circles, Pholiota tuberculosa can also be found under other names:

• Pholiota curvipes
• Agaricus tuberculosus
• Pleuroflammula tuberculosa
• Dryophila tuberculosa
• Dryophila curvipes
• Hypodendrum tuberculosum

Mushroom cap

From the very beginning, the cap of tuberous scales has a convex shape with edges tucked inward. And when it reaches maturity, the edges of the cap are straightened, but it itself acquires a prostrate shape with a slight tubercle in the middle. In older specimens, the edge can even bend upwards and even break.

The diameter of the cap varies on average in the range of 1-4.5 cm, however, mushrooms with smaller or larger caps from 5 mm to 5 cm in diameter can be found.

The surface of the cap is dry, covered with soft reddish brown or golden brown scales. A residual velum band is clearly visible along the edge of the cap - the bedspread.

The color of the cap, as well as the whole body of the mushroom, is reddish-yellow in any period of its growth.

The lumpy scale has a lamellar hymenophore. The plates themselves are quite wide. And if at the very beginning of the growth of the fungus the plates, covered with a private veil, have a color close to white, then in the process of growing up the veil breaks and disappears, and the color of the plates becomes brown-yellow, often with dark, like rusty specks.

Stipe

The brown-yellow or reddish-yellow cylindrical stem corresponds to the color of the entire body of the mushroom. Only above the annular zone, which quickly disappears, is there a whitish bloom against the background of the main yellow shade.

The structure of the leg is fibrous-felt, and its dimensions do not exceed 3 cm in length and 5 mm in width.

Growing places

Lumpy scales are fungi parasitizing on wood. Their main place of settlement is living and dead trees. However, it is often possible to find such scales on deadwood and stumps, which remain after cutting down a deciduous forest or a windbreak.

Most often, the presence of lumpy scales is noted on lindens, birches, aspens, beeches and oaks during the period from August to October.

Edibility

At the moment, there is no reliable data on the edibility of lumpy flake, therefore this mushroom is classified as conditionally edible. However, the yellowish flesh has a bitter taste, which makes this mushroom unattractive to collectors. And the smell of the mushroom is not particularly aromatic.

Similar types and differences from them

The most similar to lumpy scaly is the luminous scaly - Pholiota lucifera. Some authors even consider these species to be the same, and their names are synonyms. However, the luminous scale still has differences in the shape of the cheilocystids and the structure of the pileipellis.

Scaly fleecy, Pholiota squarrosa

Hat: Diameter from 4 to 10 cm (sometimes up to 15 cm), yellow or yellow-brown, with a mass of red-brown scales, at first bell-shaped, later half-spread, with an inward-curved edge. The pulp is yellowish, bitter, with a rare taste and smell.

Hymenophore: The plates are light yellow in youth, later gray-brown, adherent to the stem or somewhat descending.

Spore powder: Rusty brown, brown.

Leg: Length 6-1 cm, thickness 0.5-1.5 cm, cap color, with a ring, below the ring is covered with the same scales as the cap.

Spreading: Scaly hairy, or ordinary, grows from mid-August to late autumn on stumps and tree trunks, usually in large groups.

Similar species: Some believe that the autumn mushroom is a species similar to flake, but this is just ridiculous. It is not always easy to distinguish fleecy scales from other, less common and very similar representatives of the genus Pholiota. For example, from the "scaly" scale, Pholiota squarrosoides.

If we talk about common species of this genus, then, for example, golden scaly, Pholiota aurivella, is larger, and its cap is not so scaly, often slimy, and the color - in typical specimens - with a bias to "gold".Pholiota destruens - destructive flake - very large, with abundant private veil, grows on poplars and aspens. Pholiota flammans, fiery flake, has a bright fiery color on good days, more hairy. Pholiota alnicola has a pleasant lemon color. The rest of the common fungi of the genus Pholiota are not alike at all.

Edibility: The mushroom is edible in principle, but for some reason no one eats it. According to unreliable data, it is tasteless. According to reliable data, it is normal, like a mushroom. (In other parts of the world it is called so - "royal honey agaric".) However, only deliberate amateurs collect flakes for food, and the overwhelming majority of mushroom pickers simply tears and throws them away. Tears and throws out.

Author's notes: Despite the fact that, according to the experience of people who are not to be trusted, there is no reason that fleecy scaly is an edible and even quite good mushroom, no worse than an autumn mushroom, my hand does not rise to collect it. For me, this is a wonderful example of aesthetic mushroom. It does not look like anything, it looks impressive and is not needed by anyone. Young mushroom photographers are very fond of shooting fleecy scales - it looks very interesting in a dark, damp forest, on a mossy stump - but the flash, as a rule, spoils everything.

The fleecy scale is a mushroom most beautiful in middle age. Older Pholiota squarrosa takes on an off-white color and is therefore of little interest. The young one looks too ruffled. And mature - just right.

Looking at such mushrooms, one can assume why, after all, fleecy scales are usually classified as inedible, regardless of the voice of reason. It just seems that a mushroom with such a careful design cannot be edible; on the contrary, it must be poisonous or, in extreme cases, bitter, like everything aesthetically flawless. Anything beautiful is useless.

No, this is not a mushroom, and not a porcini mushroom, and not a pale toadstool! Frequent grayish plates, a leg with a scaly "stocking", quite seriously a ring - when there are no idiots nearby, Pholiota squarrosa is a trademark of a dark forest dotted with mossy remains of past generations of trees.

When fluffy scaly is young and fresh, it is difficult to confuse it with any other fungus. This should pose a serious problem even for an alternatively gifted mushroom lover.

"Royal honey agaric" is a nickname given to an ordinary scaly by some mushroom romantic from a plow. It stuck. Indeed, it is the Royal Honey. If you look at the world with a pure country look.

What does multicolor flake look like?

Multicolored scales are unlikely to be confused with other mushrooms, they are very bright and unusual. It has several names, mostly foreign ones. on the territory of Russia, the species was discovered not so long ago:

• Flammula polychroa;
• Agaricus ornellus or polychrous;
• Pholiota ornella or appendiculata;
• Pholiota Gymnopilus polychrous.

The multicolor scaly belongs to the department Basidiomycota, the Strophariaceae family, and the Pholiota genus.

Nothing is known about the edibility of the species, but most related specimens are very bitter. Common flakes are eaten. Inedible specimens have unique medicinal properties, which is why they are grown on an industrial scale in China and Japan. Multicolor flake has no nutritional value.

Description of the hat

Multicolor scaly is distinguished not only by color, but also by the size of the cap, it grows up to 12 cm in diameter. In small and growing multicolored ones, it is domed, convex, with a large number of scales on the surface. The color can vary from pinkish olive to bright purple. With age, the cap becomes flatter, turns completely dark crimson, brightens only at the edges, which may remain snow-white or acquire a yellowish tint. Old mushrooms become discolored.

The skin separates well. The flesh is whitish-yellow.

In wet weather, the cap is especially sticky and slippery.

The edges of the cap are covered with a fluffy blanket that resembles an openwork braid, due to which the scales look even more interesting. The plates from the bottom of the cap are frequent and narrow, white or pink-yellow in color, adherent to the stem.

Young specimens have a visible ring under the blades, fibrous and fragile, which disappears, leaving a subtle annular zone.

Leg description

Multicolor scales can grow up to 8 cm in height, the diameter of the leg is up to 1 cm. Above the annular zone, the leg is silky, has no scales, but those that are located below are rare. Most often, the leg is white or yellowish, but it can also be blue or emerald. The shape is cylindrical, even, slightly narrowed towards the base, in adult multicolored it is empty.

Types of scales

Common scaly (Pholiota squarrosa)

The cap is 5-12 cm in diameter, hemispherical or conical, later convex and plano-convex, the edge is bent. The surface is covered with dry scales of a bright yellow color, slimy to the touch. The pulp is light yellow, has a faint earthy odor and a rare taste. The leg is 5-19 cm high, 1-3 cm thick, with a fibrous ring, whitish above, reddish-brown below, covered with a dark coating.

Widespread species, grows on living and dead wood of deciduous and coniferous trees.

Edible scale (Pholiota nameko)

An edible mushroom used in Japanese cuisine for miso soup and pickled. It is cultivated in China and Japan.

The cap is small, 1-2 cm in diameter, orange-brown in color, covered with a slippery jelly-like substance. The mushroom grows in groups, on stumps and trees of broad-leaved species, for example, on beeches, like honey agarics, thin legs up to 5 cm high come out of one base.

Alder scale (Pholiota alnicola)

The cap is 3-7 cm in diameter, the shape is narrowly convex, in mature mushrooms it becomes flat-convex, the edge is bent. The surface is slimy, lemon-yellow, olive-brown in the central part. The pulp is pale yellow, brownish in the stem, has a weak fruity odor, the taste is mealy, sparse. The leg is 3-13 cm high, 0.5-1 cm in diameter, in old mushrooms it is hollow, covered with a coating of white, yellow at the top, reddish-brownish at the bottom.

A parasitic fungus that grows on dead wood of deciduous trees, alder and willow.