Collibia curved (Rhodocollybia prolixa)

Characteristics of the forest-loving colibia

Young colibia mushrooms have a cap that looks like a sphere. As the mushroom develops, its cap takes on a spread, flat shape with transparent margins. The diameter of the mushroom cap reaches about 2-6 cm. Young colibia fungi have some similarity with apples that fell on fallen leaves in the forest.

The core of the mushroom has brown, light yellow or sometimes white flesh. The color of the pulp directly depends on the conditions and environment in which the mushroom matures. If you look through the thin and transparent edges of the cap, you can see the plates that are weakly attached to the base of the mushroom. The older the mushroom ripens, the more it will become covered with reddish spots that appear on the inside of the fruit. The transparent and thin edges start to tear.

The mushroom leg has a thin base, it is hollow inside and twists slightly along its length, at the end it thickens a little. The structure of the stem of the fungus has a fibrous and cartilaginous surface. The cap and leg are the same color. The mushroom leg can be up to 2 or 6 cm in length.

Description

The caps, species in this genus are relatively large, often more than 5 cm (2.0 in) in diameter, convex in shape, but flattening at maturity or often developing a shallow crown-mound in the center of the cap. The surface of the cap is often uneven and slimy or slippery (slippery) to the touch. The color of the cap can vary from whitish to dark reddish brown. The gills are whitish with a pinkish cream in color and have adnexed attachment to the stem. The stem is generally long and thick (relative to the diameter of the cap), often more than 7 cm (2.8 in) long and at least 0.5 cm (0.2 in) thick; the color is usually whitish or the same color as the gills. This type of fly agaric, collybioid fungus has pale spore deposits that range from pinkish nude to pinkish cream.

The spores in this species are usually spherical to an ellipsoid in shape, and transclucent (hyaline). Rodocollibia characterized by the fact that it has an endosporium (inner wall of spores) that is dextrinoid (staining yellowish or reddish-brown in iodine waste solutions, such as Melser's reagent), and sometimes cyanophilous. The spore wall can be thin to thick (up to 0.5 microns).

Collybia chestnut, or oily (Collybia butyracea)

Habitat: mixed and coniferous forests, on forest floor, on decaying wood, usually grows in groups.

SEASON: May - October.

In the middle and end of May, the first types of collibies appear. These include, first of all, chestnut or oily colibs. These cute little mushrooms attract with their spectacular appearance, although they are small in size. Although they are edible, they are not harvested due to their small size and the lowest, fourth category for food properties.

At this time, many singing birds can be observed in the forest, for example, buntings, which climb onto the upper branches and sing, sing, sing.

The cap has a diameter of 3-8 cm, at first hemispherical, later convex with a round tubercle and then prostrate with a flat tubercle and raised or curved edges. A distinctive feature of the species is the chestnut brown color of the cap with a flat tubercle of a darker brown color and light, cream or light brown edges.

Stem 4-9 cm tall, thin, 2-8 mm thick, cylindrical, smooth, creamy at first, later fawn-brown. The base of the leg is thickened.

The pulp is watery, thin, soft, whitish or yellowish, odorless at first, later with a faint moldy odor.

The plates are creamy or yellowish, notched-adherent. Short free plates are located between the adherent plates.

Variability: The color of the cap is variable depending on the maturity of the fungus, the month and the humidity of the season. The color can be chestnut brown, especially in early summer, red-brown with a brown tint, brown-brown with a dark middle, gray-brown with an olive tint, lilac brown. In the dry season, the cap fades to light shades of yellow, cream and light brown.

Similar species. Collybia chestnut in shape and size is similar to the edible wood-loving collybia (Collybia dryophila), which differs in that it has a much lighter cap.

Edible: edible, but requires pre-cooking in 2 waters to eliminate mold odor.

Edible, 4th category.

Curved Collibia (Curved Gymnopus, Rhodocollybia prolixa) what mushrooms look like, where and how

Collibia curved (Gymnopus curved): photo and description

Curved collibia is a conditionally edible mushroom. It is also known under the names: Gymnopus curved, Rhodocollybia prolixa (lat. - wide or large rhodocollibia), Collybia distorta (lat. - curved collibia) and folk - money.

If translated from ancient Greek means "broken penny". In the genus Rodocollibia there are many different species with small external differences.

What does Collibia curved look like?

Wood mushrooms belong to the Ryadovkov family, also very small, past which an inexperienced glance will simply slip past, not paying attention.

Description of the hat

The diameter of the cap of the species is from 2 to 8 cm. The top is convex, with a central tubercle, and with age, a depression appears. The edges are tucked down in young mushrooms, then they straighten, sometimes they wrap up. The color of the cap is in soft brown-yellow shades, with bright edges. The smooth skin is slippery to the touch, as if oily. The pulp is light creamy, looks fleshy.

From below, the plates are permanent, attached to the leg. In young specimens, the caps are white from the inside, after which they become ocher.

Leg description

Legs 4-8 cm long in the middle, curved, thin, up to 8 mm. The deeper the base of the fruiting body in the wood, the more curved the fibers. Those collibies that appear on fallen leaves have straight legs. From above, on the longitudinal depressions, a powdery bloom is visible, below the hairiness. The color is white, brownish below.

Eat a mushroom or not

Colibia curved take Plus to all the rest of the mushrooms. There are no toxins in the pulp, but the taste may be like sawdust. Mushrooms are boiled twice, then fried. The broth is poured out.

Where and how it grows

The species is found in various forests of central Europe and Asia. They grow in large groups on decaying wood, fallen twigs, or below on coniferous leaf litter. It is time for a curved collision - from the 20th of August to October 1-15.

Doubles and their differences

There are no toxic fungi that look like curved kollibia that appear on felled trees. False mushrooms and other members of the genus are noticeably distinctive in color and shape.

Conclusion

Colibia curved due to the lack of a pleasant taste does not often fall into the basket. From the fruiting body of the fungus, only a hat is used for eating.

Varieties

Spindle-footed

Collibia fusiform grows on the stumps and roots of old deciduous trees, preferring oak and beech. A hat with a diameter of 4.0-8.0 cm, with a blunt tubercle. The pulp is tough. The spindle-shaped leg is 4-8 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm thick. The color range is in red-brown shades.

Widely distributed in European forests. The fruiting period is in summer and autumn.It is considered inedible, but there are cases of the use of young specimens with exquisite gastronomic qualities. Overgrown specimens cause mild poisoning.

Oil

Colibia oil prefers coniferous forests, grows in colonies. The fruiting period is July-November.

A hat with a diameter of 2-12 cm, the surface is smooth, when moisture gets in, it becomes oily, which became the determining factor in the name of the species.

Irina Selyutina (Biologist):

The flesh of the cap of the oil colibia has an interesting feature - hygrophane, i.e. it is capable of swelling when exposed to moisture. This is due to the fact that the trama (false tissue) of such pulp is represented by a loose weave of hyphae. And it is in these gaps between them that the water coming from the environment is retained. Gigrofanny hats are capable of changing color depending on the weather. So, when dry, concentric zones appear on their surface, and their distribution can go from the center to the edge or vice versa.

The color is brown or with shades of red. Mushroom stem 2-10 cm long, 0.4-1.0 cm thick, often hollow, hard, smooth surface. It belongs to the edible species.

Lazy

The fungus grows in colonies

Wood-loving colliery grows in small colonies in mixed woodlands along with oak and pine, preferring decaying wood and fallen leaves. The fruiting period is June-November.

The hat is 1-7 cm in diameter, the color is initially red-brown, later with an orange tint or yellow-brown. The flesh of the cap is thin, whitish, characterized by the presence of hygrophilousness. The mushroom leg is 3-9 cm long and 0.2-0.8 cm thick. Collebia wood-loving belongs to the edible species.

What is the value of "money" - the chestnut Colibia mushroom?

Description

Lat. Rhodocollybia butyracea, Collybia butyracea. Other names - Rhodocolibia oily, Colibia oily, Colibia chestnut, Oily money.

This is a genus of caps, late ripening, conditionally edible, colibioid fungi of the Ryadovkov family, which are often called "money" for their external resemblance to small coins.

Hat

A young mushroom has a hemispherical cap. Over time, it becomes more convex, and later acquires a prostrate, slightly depressed appearance with upward curved edges. Its diameter is 2–12 centimeters. Some specimens have a small tubercle in the center.

Colibia's cap is oil hygrohan, that is, it is capable of changing its appearance depending not only on age, but also on the level of humidity in the growing area. In rainy weather, its surface becomes oily.

The color of the cap can be light brown, reddish, burgundy, chestnut, brown. The edges are painted in lighter colors.

Hymenophore

The lower part of the cap, or hymenophore, consists of a large number of frequently located plates. They are located freely or can be tightly adhered to the stem. There are shortened intermediate plates between the large plates.

A characteristic feature of colibia is the white color of the hymenophore. In the process of maturation, it acquires a pink tint, and with age, the plates become darker.

Spores are smooth, slightly elongated and elliptical. Their powder is colored white, pale yellow or pinkish.

Pulp

Collibia is a thin-fleshy mushroom. The pulp is watery, white or light brown in color. Under the skin, it has a rich brown color.

Leg

The leg is even, cartilaginous, rigid, hollow inside. Its length ranges from 2 to 10 cm, in girth it can reach 1 cm. In the upper part, under the cap, it is slightly flattened, and in the lower part it has a slight thickening, covered with a white felt coating.

Time and place of fruiting oil money

The fungus is quite rare. At the same time, it is well camouflaged near the bases of trees and is not always visible to mushroom pickers.

Rhodocollybia butyracea is a saprotroph that grows in coniferous and deciduous forests on dried wood, in grass, moss or leaf litter. Most often it can be found in the pine forest.

It grows from the beginning of summer until the first snow, when there are no other relatives. When collecting, the fruit body is cut off at the root, and this place is covered with earth or foliage.

False doubles

The main difference between money and related species, including inedible ones, is the oily cap. Interest for lovers of "quiet hunting" may be of such varieties:

1. Collibia is spotted. It belongs to conditionally edible mushrooms and close relatives of butterflies. It has a conical or hemispherical cap with edges turned down. Its surface is white with brown-rusty spots, which serve as a distinctive feature. The pulp is elastic and very firm. The leg is slightly curved, painted white with small brown spots on the surface. It requires moist and acidic soil to grow. It is found in very large families.

The difference between different types of collisions can be seen in the photo.

Taste qualities of Colibia buttery

Colibia oil has a smack of sawdust, so it is rarely eaten, although it belongs to conditionally edible mushrooms. To get rid of the unpleasant taste, it is pre-boiled for 10-15 minutes. Only hats are used for cooking.

Cooking recipes

After collection, the colibia should be properly handled.

1. To do this, pour it into a large container and fill it with cold, slightly salted water for 10 minutes. This procedure will quickly get rid of dirt, dirt, adhering leaves and insects.
2. Then the mushrooms are washed and the caps are separated from the legs, since the oil legs of the money are hard and are not used for cooking.
3. Clean fruit bodies are placed in a large saucepan, poured over with cold water and brought to a boil over high heat.
4. Reducing the flame, cook for another 15 minutes, then drain and rinse with running water.

Boiled mushrooms can be used with onions, carrots, garlic, peppers and sour cream. Colibia goes well with stews, chicken and meat. It can also be pickled and salted.

Collibia curved

Collybia curved - Latin Collybia distorta

In another way, it is called the curved Gymnopus.

Description

Mushroom cap

The curved hymnopus has a large hat with a diameter of 30-80 mm. At the beginning of growth, the caps have neat hemispherical shapes, later they open almost completely, but remain uniformly shaped. Their edges tuck inward, rise upward, and sometimes bend to the middle. The tubercle, which is present in young mushrooms, remains in place or is transformed into a depression.

The hat is covered with a smooth, usually oily and somewhat slippery skin, which is colored in pleasant yellowish - brown shades with ocher and reddish notes. The color is often uneven, but the edges remain light.

"Headdresses" are filled with delicate light flesh, from the side that looks deceptively thick and fleshy.

The lamellar bottom is made of thin, frequent plates, slightly adhering to the legs. At first, they are white in color, as they mature, they become reddish or yellowish.

Collibia curved reproduces by whitish elongated spores that mature in white spore powder.

Stipe

The height of the leg of the curved Gymnopus is no more than 40-80 mm, the thickness is about 3-8 mm. As the name suggests, the leg usually bends in an ornate way, as if it were being twisted, although it has the shape of a cylinder. The bending intensity depends on how deep the fungus rudiments go into the wood.

There is no pulp inside the legs: this part of the fungus remains hollow at any age.

The smooth surface of the stem is dotted with longitudinal fibrous depressions that appear as it grows due to curvature. She has the same color as the hats, but it is lighter: the top of the leg is usually white, especially at a young age.Closer to the base, it gradually darkens, acquiring a brown color.

Collybia curved - Collybia distorta

Growing places

The curved hymnopus prefers branches, bark and other woody debris from conifers and deciduous species; it is found on a litter of needles or leaves. What is noteworthy: if the mushroom chooses a litter for fruiting, the leg grows in a regular, straight shape, and does not twist like a drill.

Kollibia curved bears fruit in small clusters and in favorable seasons gives bountiful harvests. You can collect delicious mushrooms from late May to mid-October. The timing of fruiting can be postponed: they depend on the climatic features of the area chosen by the colibia.

Edibility

The pulp of this variety of hymnopuses does not contain toxic substances and, although it does not have a rich taste and almost does not smell, the mushroom is considered suitable for eating and belongs to the conditionally edible category.

The main thing is, after harvesting, thoroughly rinse the mushroom raw materials and boil twice in salted water, and only then proceed to frying, stewing or other culinary manipulations. The mushroom broth left over after cooking cannot be used.

Collibia oil - Rhodocollybia butyracea

Written by Nikolay Budnik and Elena Meck.

Colibia oily or oily is a late autumn mushroom. It is also called oily money. Why the money - we do not know! Some specimens are found already in August, but the bulk of the mushrooms appear at the end of September. This mushroom does not have a pronounced taste and smell, but it grows massively when there are almost no other mushrooms. So you can safely collect and fry them without prior boiling. We practically do not take this mushroom - there are enough others.

Collibia butterfish most often grows in fairly dry coniferous forests. Mushrooms begin to grow en masse at the end of September and disappear under the snow. Colibia is a small, thin-fleshy mushroom: up to 7-8 cm in diameter.

1. On Ulom Zheleznaya kollibiya oily is a fairly common mushroom.

2. Since it grows right up to the snow, it can be harvested when there are very few other mushrooms.

3. Usually mushrooms do not occur one at a time.

4. They grow up in families, groups.

5. . and this compensates for their small size.

6. Oil colibia can most often be found in a dry pine forest.

7.. among the fallen needles.

8. It also grows under the trees.

9. This is a very small mushroom.

10. Rare specimens reach this size.

11. And most of them are small in size.

12. This is the common size of mushrooms.

13. The hat is smooth, first convex, then extended.

14. It almost always has a tubercle in the center.

15. It can be colored in different ways - brown, chestnut, burgundy-brown, red.

16. The edge of the cap is usually light, even white, and the middle is dark.

17. Plates are frequent and thin.

18. They are always white - this is a characteristic feature of collebration.

19. Only in old age can they darken a little.

20. This is how the plates are attached to the leg.

21. The leg is cartilaginous and stiff.

22. Inside, it is hollow.

23. The leg is long, thin and straight.

24.. but more often the leg expands evenly downward.

25. The color of the leg is much darker than the plates - like a hat.

26. Under the cap, the leg is flattened, not cylindrical.

27. Below it is often covered with a light fluffy coating.

28. The flesh of the mushroom is rather thin, watery.

29. It is white or brownish, with a faint mushroom odor.

Description of the spindle-footed collibia

The head of this mushroom is 4-8 centimeters in diameter. At an early age, the shape of the cap is convex, over time it becomes flat, and a blunt tubercle remains in the center, which often has an irregular shape. The color of the cap is red-brown, later it becomes lighter.

The pulp is fleshy, but tough, with light fibers. The color of the flesh is whitish. The taste and smell of the pulp are subtle. The plates are free or weakly adherent, they are rarely located. The length of the plates is different.The color of the plates varies from whitish to cream, there are orange-brown spots. The disputes are wide-oval. Spore white powder.

The leg reaches 4-8 centimeters in length, and the thickness reaches 1.5 centimeters. The leg is of the same color as the cap, but its base is darker. The shape of the stem is fusiform, the base is more refined. The brown outgrowth penetrates deeply into the substrate. The legs of young mushrooms are solid, then they become hollow. The surface of the leg is wrinkled, with warts.

Spindle-footed colibia growth sites

Collibia spindle-footed is common in deciduous forests. These mushrooms grow on stumps, roots and trunks of old deciduous trees. Most often they are found on beeches and oaks. These mushrooms bear fruit from summer to autumn. They settle in large intergrowths.

Fusiform collision score

As a rule, spindle-footed collibia is considered an inedible mushroom, but some authors claim that the youngest fruiting bodies are suitable for consumption, in addition, they have an exquisite taste. But it is worth knowing that old collisions can cause mild poisoning.

The similarity of the spindle-footed colibia with other mushrooms

Collibia fusiform is outwardly similar to winter honey. Winter mushroom is a conditionally edible mushroom. They are found from late autumn to early winter. Under good conditions, these mushrooms can bear fruit throughout the winter. The places of growth of winter mushrooms are stumps and dead wood, while they settle mainly on deciduous trees.

Other mushrooms of this genus

Merging money is an inedible mushroom. The hat does not exceed 6 centimeters in diameter; its shape changes from convex to convex-outstretched. The surface of the cap is smooth. The edges are thin and curved. The color of the cap is reddish brown or ocher brown; with age, the cap fades and becomes creamy. The leg is quite long - up to 10 centimeters. Its shape is cylindrical, often flattened. The color of the leg is whitish, and towards the base it becomes yellow-brown, with age, the color of the leg becomes black-brown.

These mushrooms grow often and abundantly. They settle in deciduous forests. They grow in groups, while their legs grow together into bundles.

Colibia Azema is an edible mushroom. The cap can be flat or with turned-up edges; as it matures, the cap opens more and more. The cap is shiny and very fleshy. Its diameter reaches 6 centimeters. The leg is also up to 6 centimeters long, thickened at the bottom.

Colibia Azema bears fruit from late summer to autumn. They grow on acidic soils. They can be found in almost any forest.