Leukofoliota woody

Wood leukofoliota (wood silverfish): photo and description

Woody silverfish or leukofoliota is a conditionally edible representative of the mushroom kingdom. It prefers to grow in deciduous forests, in the Central and Northern regions of Russia. It can be used in cooking, as cooked mushrooms have a pleasant taste and aroma.

What does wood silverfish look like?

Silverfish wood unusually beautiful view

The cap and leg are bright golden in color, and in the open sun the mushroom seems to glow from the inside, attracting attention. Acquaintance with woody leucopolyote must begin with a description

Description of the hat

The cap of young mushrooms has a hemispherical shape, which straightens and becomes flat with age. The dry, 9-centimeter golden surface is matte, covered with numerous pointed scales. The bottom is covered with wide light lemon plates and a dense film that descends over time, forming a golden ring.

Leg description

9 cm slightly curved cylindrical leg, hollow, fibrous, painted to match the color of the cap. The snow-white pulp is dense, with a pronounced mushroom smell, the color does not change on the cut.

Wood silverfish is edible or not

Woody leucofoliota is an edible representative of the mushroom kingdom, so it can be used to prepare culinary dishes. Due to the pleasant smell and sweetish taste, mushrooms can be fried, boiled, stewed, frozen. Small species look nice pickled and salted.

Where and how does woody leukofoliota grow

Wood silverfish is an endangered variety listed in the Red Book. Therefore, when going on a mushroom hunt, this must be remembered.

A rare variety prefers deciduous, mixed forests, birch forests and mountain ranges. In the Central and Northern regions, golden mushrooms can be found on stumps, trunks of broad-leaved trees and on their rhizomes.

Doubles and their differences

Woody leukofoliota, like other species, has its counterparts. These include:

1. Beautiful - grows in temperate climates on broad-leaved trees. You can distinguish it by the free whitish plates, which partially grow together with the leg. Belongs to the 4th group of edibility. Before use and for further preparation, the variety must be boiled in salted water for half an hour.
2. Common scaly - common in deciduous and coniferous forests. It grows on stumps, tree trunks and their rhizomes. Variety differences: a wide light cream cap with numerous scales and a long thin leg, colored to match the cap. The variety is edible, from small specimens beautiful and tasty fried, stewed and pickled dishes are obtained.
3. Cystoderm is a conditionally edible variety, but I don't use it in cooking. Since it has low taste and an unpleasant pungent odor. The hemispherical hat and long leg are colored red or light brown. The bottom of the cap is covered with wide yellowish plates; there is no ring on the stem.

Conclusion

Woody silverfish or woody leukofoliota is a conditionally edible species listed in the Red Book. It grows in Siberia, the Urals, the Far East on the trunks of deciduous trees. It is impossible to pass by this variety, since it is painted in gold and begins to glow from the inside in the open sun. Despite its rapid disappearance, mushroom pickers use it in cooking, fried, stewed and pickled.

Similar species

Leukofoliota woody bears similarities to some other fungi:

The pulp of this mushroom is bitter, so it is considered conditionally edible. Differs in less yellow color, it is rather white-brown.

This mushroom is considered a valuable medicinal product. It differs in greater yellowness, fewer and more pronounced scales, covered with mucus (it is this that is the main value of the mushroom).

Amianthus cystoderm

This conditionally edible representative of champignons is distinguished by its smaller size and the fact that the shape of its cap is more like an umbrella.

Cystoderm is red

Differs in a reddish-brown color of the cap. The scales are much less pronounced, the mushroom itself is smaller and edible.

Cystoderm is deceiving

Looks about the same as wood, but grows mainly on pines. Also a rare species.

Odorous cystoderm

This mushroom is almost white in color, is very rare, therefore edibility has not been established, presumably edible.

Poisonous mushrooms are not found among the twins of the woody leukofoliota, but due to its rarity, it is not recommended to collect such mushrooms.

Leukofoliota woody (Leucopholiota lignicola)

Leucopholiota decorosa

Leukofoliota arborealis a xylothorophagus fungus that usually grows on the wood of deciduous trees, preferring birch trees. It grows in groups, as well as singly.

It is found in mixed and deciduous forests of the central and northern regions, and can also grow in mountainous areas.

The season is from early August to late September.

The cap of a woody leukofoliota is brown or golden in color, reaching about 9 centimeters in diameter. Young mushrooms have a hemisphere, then the cap straightens, becomes almost flat. The surface is dry, may be covered with a few curved scales. Pieces of the bedspread remain at the edges in the form of golden flakes.

The leg is up to 8-9 centimeters long and is hollow. There may be slight bends, but mostly straight. The color is like that of a cap, while from below to the ring on the leg there may be scales, then, above, the leg is absolutely smooth.

The pulp of Leucopholiota lignicola is very firm and has a pleasant mushroom taste and smell.

Mushroom photo Leukofoliota woody from questions in recognition:

Here it is edible, on other sites they write that it is not. Whom to believe?)

The mushroom is edible. I had to collect. I thought it was just a kind of honey agaric. Fried with onions, normal mushrooms, but I like honey mushrooms better.

1) 4 out of 8 photos of leukofoliots are mine. They are shamelessly stolen by the administration of the site from the GIF portal, exhibited here without permission, without attribution and without reference to their legal location. In the near future, this page will be excluded from Google search.

2) Left photo in the top row, where young mushrooms are not L. lignicola at all. This is some kind of flake, Pholiota sp.

3) Regarding edibility - the mushroom is definitely edible, but since it is listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation, collecting and eating it is a violation of federal law.

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Photos of leukofoliots taken at GIF have been deleted.

But now I see here two of my other photos stolen from the SHG portal - the first and third in the bottom row. It will not be difficult for me to prove my authorship on them, because the originals are stored on my computer.

Igor, photos have been deleted.

Zhadoba you Igor. You feel sorry for the photos for people who have never seen such mushrooms and have never seen them in the forest, even though you can look at them on the site here.You got mad at the site administration for the selection of visual material, they are trying for people, and here you are demonstrating your egoism. Do not spread such a greedy person to the Internet at all, sit on your computer and admire them alone.

It is disgusting to read you. Igor, gobble up the photos, or rather choke on them, hribnik, mlyn)

You can call names and it can be disgusting. To be honest, the form of presentation is unpleasant for me. But. Igor is the owner of the copyright for the photographs. He made it, he has the right to place it wherever he sees fit. The fact that the photos are "taken from the Internet" does not mean that they are no one. I am sure that in personal correspondence all questions could well be resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the participants. And, of course, if in order to access the photos you need to write whose they are and give a link to the portal - why not? I myself am engaged in photography, I know how much effort, time and money it costs to make a good photo. And if you like my photos, you just need to agree on mutual pleasure - money or advertising. If I deem it necessary to give them, I will. If I can sell, I will. The camera also requires repair and maintenance. And the next frames may not be. And "zhadoba", "devour" - this is somehow embarrassing to read from adults.

This issue has been resolved long ago, please stop raising this topic, there is nothing to discuss here.

Yes, just now I looked at the date. Sorry, I will be careful in the future. I was simply struck by the depth of intelligence of the interlocutors in this sublime dialogue.

Is there a danger of poisoning?

This poisonous mushroom has an edible counterpart. This is corymbose lepiota. But the flake itself is considered by many sources to be conditionally edible mushrooms. Although there is a muscarinic toxin in its pulp according to scientific research, its concentrations are not significant. But with prolonged use of the mushroom in food, a gradual accumulation of toxins can occur. Moreover, it will be quite difficult to understand the reason for feeling unwell in this case. Not infrequently it manifests itself in the form of eczema, dermatitis of unclear etiology, toxic hepatitis, destructive forms of anemia.

We do not recommend that you experiment with your health and collect this mushroom for further culinary use. Moreover, comb flake does not have any taste and nutritional value.

In the common people, the leukofoliota is called woody silverfish - it is an edible mushroom.

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 mushrooms, Basidiomycete, Cutis, Trichoderma, Gimeniderm, Epithelium.

Pileipellis (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 mushrooms, Basidiomycete, Cutis, Trichoderma, Gimeniderm, Epithelium.

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.

Apical (Apical)

Apical.

See Basal.

Amyloid (Amyloid structure)

The structure is called amyloid if from Melzer's reagent (solution of 0.5 g of crystalline iodine + 1.5 g of potassium iodide + 20 ml of chloral hydrate + 20 ml of distilled water) turns blue, violet, sometimes almost black.

See Dextrinoid structure.

Description

Woody leukofoliota - xylotroph, that is, it parasitizes trees and causes their destruction. This mushroom has a specific "shaggy" surface.

Hat

Shape: from hemispherical in youth to almost flat at maturity, small, up to about 9 cm in diameter.

Color: yellow-brown.

Surface: dry, covered with brownish scaly growths with curved edges. Remnants of velum hang from the edges of the hat.

Leg

Shape: usually straight, cylindrical, but specimens with curved legs are found. A cavity is formed inside the leg.

Size: about 9cm long, not thick.

Color: matches the color of the cap.

Surface: to the velum ring, covered, like the cap, with scaly outgrowths, above it is completely smooth.

Type: lamellar.

Color: white to cream.

Features: wide, well-spaced, free.

Pulp

Density: very dense.

Color: white and cream.

Organoleptic characteristics: taste and smell are pleasant, but very weak, not pronounced.

Taste qualities of wood leukofoliota

Woody leukofoliota is an edible mushroom. Its pulp is very dense with a pleasant smell and taste. From a culinary point of view, these are magnificent mushrooms with an exquisite delicate taste.

The number of silverfish

Although woody leucofoliota is a tasty mushroom, it is not worth collecting as it is very rare. The species is in the Red Book of the Russian Federation and a number of regions, including the Krasnodar Territory.

The similarity of woody leukofoliota with other mushrooms

In this genus, another representative is known - the beautiful leukofoliota, which has an external resemblance to the woody silverfish. But the excellent leukofoliota is widespread in North America. It prefers a more temperate climate and grows in broadleaf forests such as sugar maple and beech, while silverfish is tied to birch trees. The only external difference of the North American species is the cavitated, adherent to the pedicle, free plates.

In addition, under certain conditions, woody silverfish can be confused with some types of cystoderms and scales. But woody differs from leukofoliota scales in white plates and white spore powder.And from the cystoderms of the leukofoliota, woody differs in larger sizes and in that it grows on wood, and not on forest litter.

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Family Ordinary Tricholomataceae

Category and status. 3 (NT) is a rare species with a disjunctive range. It is included in the Red Book of the Russian Federation. Short description. The cap is 4–9 cm in diameter, yellow or reddish-brown, convex, densely hairy-torn-scaly. Scales bristly-pointed, high, erect, slightly appressed along the edge, turning into a dense flocculent-cobweb private cover of the same color with the cap. The plates are loose, white or whitish-cream. Stem 5–9 × 0.8–2 cm, more or less clavate, hollow, of the same color as the cap, with a cobweb-flaky ring, below the ring flaky-scaly, above - glabrous, smooth, creamy. The pulp is whitish, with a faint pleasant smell. Spores 4.5–6 × 2–4 µm, colorless, amyloid, ellipsoidal, smooth. Spreading. In Buryatia, finds were noted in the Tunkinskaya valley (the villages of Zun-Murino, Tory, Tunkinsky district) and in the valley of the river. Vitim (station Taksimo, Muisky district). The species range is Holarctic, but unique finds are separated by giant disjunctions. The fungus is found in the North Caucasus, Western and Eastern Siberia and the Far East, but the bulk of the population is concentrated in Eastern Siberia - in the Irkutsk region, Buryatia, Krasnoyarsk and Trans-Baikal territories. Outside of Russia, single finds were noted in Europe, Central Africa and North America. Habitat, ecology features. Xylotroph. Inhabits the foothills and taiga belt of mountains, in cedar and cedar-deciduous, less often pine-larch and spruce-fir forests. Solitary fruiting bodies develop on rotten, often mossy deciduous wood, mainly birch, from late July to mid-September. Population size and factors limiting it. It is extremely rare, which is due to the narrow ecological amplitude of the species and the reduction in the areas of undisturbed cedar forests. Adopted and necessary security measures. It is included in the Red Data Books of the Russian Federation, Irkutsk Oblast and Trans-Baikal Territory. It is necessary to protect all currently known habitats of the species in all specially protected natural areas of Siberia. It is advisable to introduce East Siberian strains into international collections of pure cultures. Sources of information. 1. Petrov, 1981; 2. Petrov, 1990; 3. Data of the originator; 4. Petrov, 2008; 5. Petrov, 2002zh; 6. Red Data Book of the Russian ..., 2008; 7. Red Book of Irkutsk ..., 2010. Compiled by A.N. Petrov. Painter N.V. Stepantsov.

Description of crested silverfish

The silverfish mushroom has a peculiar description, which in its essence resembles any other mushroom from the scaly and umbellate genus. This is a small thin-bodied cap of a white or cream shade; on the outer surface, densely attached scales of a contrasting color are determined. When they merge, they form a dark brown covering layer. The surface is dry and velvety to the touch. May become slimy and sticky in wet weather. The average diameter of the cap is only 5 cm.

At the initial stages of its growth, silverfish has a domed cap, the edges of which are gradually straightened, reaching the shape of a convex saucer by the beginning of the maturation of the spore powder. It is densely seeded between the lamellar formations on the back of the cap. All plates are thin and easily break under mechanical stress. Their color is white, like the entire pulp, which, upon any contact, quickly acquires a crimson hue.

When broken or cut, a strong peppery smell is released with hints of radish or horseradish, depending on the growing conditions of the mushroom.

The leg is thin and long. It is very difficult to cut the mushroom without the help of a knife, since the stem consists entirely of vertical fibers with hygroscopic properties. This gives the mushroom flexibility and firmness. The outer surface of the leg is covered with dark brown scales.

In the early stages of growth, a ring is preserved on the stem, consisting of a thin film, which previously covered the cap. In heavy rains, the ring may disappear 2 days after the fungus emerges on the surface of the earth. The ring is spontaneously erased by the beginning of spore maturation.

Leukofoliota woody (Leucopholiota lignicola)

Wood leukofoliota (Leucopholiota lignicola (P. Karst.) Harmaja)

Synonyms: Amylolepiota lignicola; Lepiota lignicola; Wood silverfish.

The cap is 2.5-9 cm in diameter, at first hemispherical, then widely convex to almost flat, reddish-brown, golden-orange, dry, covered with numerous large dark-golden, red-orange or brownish-brown bristly-pointed, almost erect, slightly curved scales, slightly pressed along the edges. The edges of the cap are turned up, with the remnants of a private bedspread hanging down in the form of large golden-yellow flakes.

The plates are white or whitish-cream, loose or almost free, frequent, moderately wide, finely toothed.

The private veil is golden-orange, dense, flocculent-cobweb, after rupture forming a flocculent cobweb annular zone on the leg and flakes hanging along the edges of the cap.

Leg - 5-9 cm long and 0.8-2 cm thick, one-color with a cap, even or slightly curved, slightly tapering towards the upper part, hollow, above the annular zone naked, smooth, ocher, completely covered with large dark golden flaky scales.

The pulp is dense, whitish, does not change color on the cut.

The smell is weak mushroom, pleasant.

The taste is pleasant, sweetish.

The spore powder is white.

Edible - certainly edible.

The nature of growth and distribution - xylotroph on birch fallen trees, less often on other deciduous species, singly or in small groups, in plain and mountain deciduous and mixed forests with the obligatory presence of birch, in the north of Eurasia (Scandinavia, Karelia, Arkhangelsk Region, Nenets Autonomous District), in the middle and southern taiga forests of Siberia and the Far East, August-September.

Note:

Another species is known in the genus Leucopholiota - Leucopholiota decorosa, a beautiful leukofoliota, common in the northeast of North America. Preferring a more temperate climate, L. decorosa grows in forests with the presence of broad-leaved species such as the beech Fagus grandifolia or the sugar maple Acer saccharum, and is not associated with birch species. The only external difference of the North American leukofoliota is not free, but notched-adhered to the pedicle of the plate.

Under certain conditions, woody leukofoliota can be confused with some scaly or cystoderm. Meanwhile, it reliably differs from the former by white plates and the white color of spore powder, and from the latter by growing on wood, and not on the forest floor, as well as much larger sizes.

From a culinary point of view, leukofoliots are wonderful mushrooms with a delicate exquisite taste. However, it is not worth collecting them due to their extreme rarity. The species is included in the Red Data Books of the Russian Federation and the Krasnoyarsk Territory, as well as in the Red Data Books of a number of other regions of Russia. In my opinion, the main advantage of these mushrooms is their extraordinary beauty. The bright gold, as if glowing from the inside, the fruiting bodies of the leukofoliot are visible from afar, and each meeting with them pleases the heart and is remembered for a long time, and for the amateur photographer it is even an invaluable gift from Nature.

Conclusion

Woody silverfish or woody leukofoliota is a conditionally edible species listed in the Red Book. It grows in Siberia, the Urals, the Far East on the trunks of deciduous trees. It is impossible to pass by this variety, since it is painted in gold and begins to glow from the inside in the open sun. Despite its rapid disappearance, mushroom pickers use it in cooking, fried, stewed and pickled.

The silverfish mushroom is a close relative of another poisonous species - the comb umbrella. Both types are characterized by a low concentration of muscarinic poisons, which tend to accumulate in the human body.

Therefore, it is recommended to avoid collecting and eating them. Most often, comb scaly ends up in the basket under the guise of lepiota, which can be edible in some areas. These areas are notable for the absence of large industrial enterprises.

Distribution territory - all regions of Russia. Grows in large quantities in the middle lane. It is found in huge colonies and single specimens.

Not demanding for soil conditions. The main condition for growth is that the average ambient temperature should be above 20 degrees Celsius. The main period of active growth occurs at the beginning of summer. By mid-August, only old specimens remain.