Lazy webcap (Cortinarius bolaris) photo and description

Interesting facts about the purple spider web

Not everyone was fortunate enough to see the gadget with their own eyes, but there are rumors in the circle of mushroom pickers about its interesting features:

In a number of regions, the mushroom is listed in the Red Book. Its pages contain information about the extinct and the rarest species of plants, animals and fungi.
The technology for making paints often involves the use of cobwebs, since they are considered an environmentally friendly product.
The cobweb, from which the mushroom got its name, is necessary to provide a special microclimate for maturing spores. It plays the role of a kind of greenhouse and disappears in adult specimens.
The mutual exchange of useful substances occurs between the fungus and the tree with which it created mycorrhiza. The development of most species is possible exclusively in a one-way process, i.e. mushrooms suck vital juices from the tree, but do not give it anything in return.
Pharmaceutical companies have learned about the ability of the spider web to lower blood glucose levels. Therefore, it has become an indispensable component in the manufacture of drugs that control hypoglycemia. It is often found in antibiotics and antifungal agents.
Culinary connoisseurs rarely get the opportunity to taste an exotic mushroom. If a chance still appears, then it is not added to hot dishes or snacks, since the pulp has a weak aroma. On a note!
Best of all, the taste of the spider web is revealed when salting or pickling.
In case of poisoning with poisonous species of cobwebs (beautiful, shiny, mountainous, reddish), the first symptoms may appear after a few days or weeks.

The podbolotnik is listed in the Red Book and is protected by law, as it is very rarely found in nature. This makes it even more attractive in the eyes of lovers of "quiet hunting" who seek to see the unique mushroom with their own eyes.

Cobweb smooth-skinned

Habitats of the smooth-skinned penny (Cortinarius allutus): coniferous and deciduous forests, in damp places, near swamps, grow in groups.

Harvesting season: July - October.

The hat has a diameter of 4-8 cm, sometimes up to 10 cm, at first hemispherical, later convex-outstretched. A distinctive feature of the species is a yellow-orange cap with lighter, often wavy edges. With age, the edges of the cap crack.

Look at the photo - this edible spider web has a high leg, 4-10 cm and 6-18 mm thick, widened at the base, light brown, often with a purple tint:

The flesh is whitish or bluish, at the break it changes color to brownish and even purple, without much taste or smell.

The plates are adherent, at first creamy with a purple tint, later rusty-brown. Variability. The cap color ranges from light brown to yellow-orange with lighter edges.

Similar species. The smooth-skinned webcap is similar in shape to the brown webcap (Cortinarius brunneus), which is distinguished by the dark brown color of the cap.

The smooth-skinned spiderweb mushroom is edible, belongs to the 4th category.

Cooking methods: frying, after preliminary boiling for at least 25 minutes.

(lumpy mushroom)

or red-scaly cobweb

✎ Affiliation and generic features

The cobweb is lazy (lat.Cortinarius bolaris), otherwise the cobweb is red-scaly, in the people it is a mushroom-hulk - this is a medium-sized hat-footed species of the genus cobweb (lat.Cortinarius) and the capacious family of the same name of cobwebs (cortinaria) (lat.Cortinariaceae) order agaric (lamellar) (lat. Agaricales).
Lazy cobweb took the name, however, like all other cobweb mushrooms, for a kind of “cobweb” cover, in the form of a veil-like film, connecting the edges of the cap with their leg in young fruits, and the epithet “red-scaly” for a completely matching cap color.
A lazy webcap could be considered an inedible species, but still, due to the content of a small amount of toxins in its pulp, many sources consider it, albeit weakly, but still a poisonous species that can cause even severe poisoning.

✎ Similar views

Lazy cobweb is incredibly difficult to confuse with other types of cobwebs, and indeed with other mushrooms, thanks to such a variegated color. Therefore, we can say that he has no twins in nature.
The only, probably, with whom it can be confused is with its brother - rather rare, also inedible and possessing poisonous properties, peacock cobweb (lat.Cortinarius pavonius), which lives limitedly in mountainous and hilly areas, in forests with a predominance of beech, and in which the scales on the cap are brick-red, not copper-red, and the plates in youth have purple, but not yellowish-brownish shade.

✎ Distribution in nature and seasonality

A lazy webcap for sight grows in the same place as other spiderweb mushrooms: in coniferous and deciduous forests in moss, next to wetlands, on wet or acidic fertile soils, usually not massively, and forming mycorrhiza with trees of both deciduous and coniferous rocks.
But the lazy cobweb is best spread in the familiar, temperate climatic zone. It can be found in Western and Eastern Europe (Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, France, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Belarus and the Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia).
On the territory of Russia, the lazy spider web is often found in the European zone, in the South Urals, or in Eastern Siberia. It can also be found in Georgia, North America, Canada, during the early autumn period - from early September to late October.

✎ Brief description and application

The lazy webcap belongs to the section of lamellar fungi and the spores with which it reproduces are in its plates. The plates are rather narrow and frequent, slightly descending to the stem, adherent to the cap, first clay-yellow, and after rusty-brown, with reddish spots. The cap of young fruits is semi-spherical, creamy yellow, as it grows, it first takes on a cushion-like shape of a red-brown color, later it becomes semi-spread and copper-red, vividly covered with scales of a brick or copper-red color, along the edges with noticeable in shreds from the cobweb cover. The stem is short, strong and dense, cylindrical and with a clavate seal at the base, sometimes twisted, reddish-brown, copper-red and yellow-orange, and less often creamy yellow, covered with reddish-red scales. The pulp is dense, whitish, yellowish, or light orange in color with a yellowish tinge and a slightly musty aroma.

A lazy cobweb should not be tasted, it is probably poisonous and dangerous, and is not used for food!

P.S.

All spiderweb mushrooms are in many ways terribly similar to each other and, most of them, have a pronounced "grebe" look. But, even if it is still somehow possible to determine the genus of these mushrooms, then only a specialist can say which species they belong to. This is why you need to be proficient in understanding these mushrooms before picking them.
Therefore, all cobwebs that can be eaten, for "every fireman", are better considered conditionally edible species. And there is hardly anyone who dares to eat them raw, as is done with some edible mushrooms.

Proceeding from what, collecting and eating spiderweb mushrooms should be incomparably careful, and for beginner and inexperienced mushroom pickers, at first, it is generally better to refuse this.

What does a poisonous spiderweb mushroom look like (with photo)

Above, we looked at what cobwebs look like, suitable for eating, and now it is the turn of the inedible species. It is worth knowing that the poisonous spiderweb mushroom is very dangerous, since it can be fatal.

See what a poisonous spider web looks like in the photo, remember it and under no circumstances pick it up in the forest:

Lazy webcap (Cortinarius bolaris)

Lazy webcap in the photo

The mushroom is inedible. Caps up to 3-8 cm, at first hemispherical, then convex and finally open, clay-yellow, densely covered with large red or red-orange scales.In young mushrooms, the scales are glued to the surface of the cap; the yellow color of the surface is visible only as small gaps between the red scales. In mature mushrooms, the scales diverge along the surface of the cap and lag behind it at the edge. The plates are clay-yellow, then brown, turn red when damaged. Leg 5-7 cm long, 5-15 mm thick, cylindrical, reddish-fibrous, often scaly, like a cap. The pulp is whitish with a brownish tinge. Spore powder yellow-green.

Grows in deciduous, mixed and coniferous forests on acidic soil.

Fruiting from August to September.

It has no poisonous counterparts.

Goat webcap (Cortinarius traganus)

The goat webcap grows very abundantly in deciduous and coniferous forests

Goat webcap in the photo

The mushroom is inedible. Massive caps 3–12 cm, at first, spherical and lilac, then hemispherical and, finally, open ocher, with a fringed edge. The plates are buffy-yellow with a violet tinge, later brownish-ocher. The leg is lilac or yellow, with scales, 5-10 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, with an extension at the bottom. The pulp of young mushrooms is white-blue, then ocher with an unpleasant "goat" smell of acetylene.

The goat spider web has no poisonous counterparts.

The goat webcap is inedible due to the unpleasant smell of acetylene.

Common webcap (Cortinarius triviah)

Common webcap in the photo

The edibility of the mushroom is questionable. Caps up to 5-8 cm, at first hemispherical, then convex or open, mucous yellow-rusty-brown, dry straw-yellow Plates are white-gray with a violet tinge, later rusty brown. Leg yellow or bluish, 8-12 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, covered with mucus in the upper part, with dark belts in the lower part. The pulp is light, whitish-buffy, in old mushrooms with a weak unpleasant odor.

It looks like an inedible slimy spider web (Cortinarius mucosus) with a white leg.

The common webcap is not designated as a poisonous mushroom, but its edibility is in doubt.

Scaly webcap

Description

A hat with a diameter of 3-8 cm, at first bell-shaped, then convex, with a blunt tubercle, with numerous dark brown scales on a pale brown, brown-brown background, with a darker middle and a light, brownish, sometimes with a lilac shade edge

The plates are rare, adherent with a tooth, at first gray-brownish with a violet tinge, then brownish, rusty-brown. The cobweb cover is light brownish, noticeable.

The spore powder is brown.

The leg is 5-8 cm long and about 1 cm in diameter, cylindrical, widened towards the base, slightly clavate, solid, later hollow, smooth at the top, gray-brownish with a violet tinge, below pale brown with several concentric scaly dark-brown bands.

The flesh is loose, grayish-purple, light brownish in the stem, sometimes with a faint musty odor.

Spreading

Scaly webcap lives from late August to late September in coniferous, deciduous and mixed (with birch) forests, in humid places, in moss, near swamps, in groups and singly, not uncommon

Grade

Scaly webcap - An edible mushroom of medium quality, used fresh (boiling for about 15 minutes, the smell is boiled down) in second courses, salted, pickled (one cap is better).

Description of the lazy webcap

The mushroom's cap is relatively small - 3-7 centimeters in diameter. In young specimens, the caps are hemispherical, but gradually they open up and become slightly convex; by old age they can become open. The caps open fully, especially in dry weather. On the surface of the cap there are a large number of characteristic scales of red, rusty-brown or orange color. Thanks to these scales of cobwebs, the lazy one is easy to recognize and notice from afar.

The pulp is dense, white-yellow in color. The pulp has a faint odor. The plates are adherent, wide, located with an average frequency. In young specimens, the plates are gray, and with age, like in most relatives, they become rusty-brown from spores.Spore powder, respectively, rusty brown color.

The leg is thick - 1-1.5 centimeters wide, while the short one is 3-6 centimeters long. The leg is often twisted and twisted. It is strong and dense in structure. The surface of the leg, like the skin of a cap, is covered with scales of the same color. But the scales on the stem are less evenly spaced. The pulp in the stem is fibrous, darker at the base.

Places of growth of lazy cobwebs

Fruiting spider webs do not last long - from September to October. They settle in various types of forests. Lazy cobwebs form mycorrhiza with species of different trees, for example, with birches. These mushrooms love to settle in acidic soils. They grow in humid places. Often they come across in groups of uneven-aged specimens.

The fungus is an inedible species; it can also be weak or highly poisonous.

Other cobwebs

The crimson webcap is a conditionally edible species. The length of its leg reaches 8 centimeters, and the diameter of the cap is up to 15 centimeters. The surface of the cap is slimy to the touch; its shape changes from convex to flat. The color of the cap is red-brown or olive-brown. The flesh is bluish in color; it turns purple when cut. She has a pleasant aroma, but there is no distinctive taste. The color of the leg is purple.

Crimson cobwebs actively bear fruit in the fall. These mushrooms grow in different forests. Their search properties are poorly studied, but they are mainly used pickled or salted.

Fatty or edible cobweb - a representative of the family, suitable for human consumption. His hat is fleshy, with an edge bent inward, and over time it becomes flat or depressed. Its diameter reaches 8 centimeters. The color of the cap is whitish-gray. The leg is dense, straight, 2-3 centimeters long and about 2 centimeters in diameter. The color of the leg is whitish-brown. The pulp is thick with a pleasant smell and taste.

BBWs bear fruit from September to October. They grow in coniferous forests. Fatties can be found in the forests of the European part of our country and Belarus.

Lazy webcap (Cortinarius bolaris)

Lazy webcap (lat.Cortinarius bolaris) is a poisonous mushroom of the Spiderweb family (Cortinariaceae).

Hat:
Relatively small (3-7 cm in diameter), pokular-like in youth, gradually opens to slightly convex, cushion-shaped; in older mushrooms, it can be completely spread, especially in dry times. The surface of the cap is densely covered with characteristic red, orange or rusty-brown scales, which makes the mushroom easily recognizable and visible from a distance. The flesh of the cap is white-yellowish, dense, with a faint musty odor.

Plates:
Wide, adherent, medium frequency; in youth, gray, with age, like most cobwebs, become rusty brown from maturing spores.

Spore powder:
Rusty brown.

Leg:
Usually short and thick (3-6 cm in height, 1-1.5 cm in thickness), often twisted and twisted, dense, strong; the surface, like that of the cap, is covered with scales of the corresponding color, albeit not so evenly. The pulp in the leg is fibrous, dark at the base.

Spreading:
Lazy webcap meets in September-October in forests of various types, forming mycorrhiza, apparently, with trees of different species, from birch to pine. Prefers acidic soils, bears fruit in damp places, in mosses, often in groups of fungi of different ages.

Similar species:
Cortinarius bolaris in its typical form is difficult to confuse with any other cobweb - the variegated color of the cap practically eliminates error. Literature, however, points to a certain cobweb of peacocks (Cortinarius pavonius), a mushroom with purple plates in youth, but whether it grows with us is still a big question.

Edible: The mushroom is inedible or weakly (if not weakly) poisonous.

Remarks The fact that Cortinarius bolaris is classified as a "small webcap" is a big deception! Knowing about the colorful "bumpkin", I searched for it for a long time among small variegated mushrooms, I searched and did not find it; he, however, was not there, for when this mushroom is, doubts disappear by themselves.Beautiful crimson-and-motley hats in green moss, like the eggs of an alien invader - what a find could be more beautiful! And I would sharply criticize people who pluck and scatter lazy cobwebs around the neighborhood. Cortinarius bolaris bears no resemblance to any fungus that may be of interest to the purveyor. With none. So why should he tolerate from people what he would not tolerate? I do not understand this and do not want to understand.

Superb webcap (Cortinarius praestans)

The excellent webcap (Cortinarius praestans) is a mushroom belonging to the Spiderweb family.

External description

The fruit body of the excellent spider web is lamellar, consisting of a cap and a leg. On the surface of the mushroom, you can see the remains of a spider web.

The diameter of the cap can reach 10-20 cm, and its shape in young mushrooms is hemispherical. As the fruit bodies ripen, the cap opens to a convex, flat, and sometimes even slightly depressed cap. The surface of the mushroom cap is fibrous and velvety to the touch; in mature mushrooms, its edge becomes pronouncedly wrinkled. In immature fruit bodies, the color is close to purple, and in ripe ones it becomes red-brown and even wine. At the same time, a purple tint is preserved along the edges of the cap.

The hymenophore of the fungus is represented by plates located on the back of the cap and adhered to the surface of the stem with their notches. The color of these plates is grayish in young mushrooms, and beige-brown in mature ones. The plates contain a rusty-brown spore powder consisting of almond-shaped spores with a warty surface.

The length of the leg of the excellent spider web varies within 10-14 cm, and the thickness is 2-5 cm. At the base, a tuberous thickening is clearly visible on it, and the remains of the cortina are clearly visible on the surface. The color of the leg in immature excellent spiderwebs is represented by a pale purple tint, and in mature fruit bodies of this species it is pale ocher or whitish.

The pulp of the mushroom is characterized by a pleasant aroma and taste; it acquires a brown color in contact with alkaline products. In general, it has a white, sometimes bluish color.

Season and habitat

The excellent webcap (Cortinarius praestans) is widespread in the nemoral areas of Europe, but is rare there. Some European countries have even included this type of mushroom in the Red Book as rare and endangered. The fungus of this species grows in large groups, lives in mixed and deciduous forests. May form mycorrhiza with beech or other deciduous trees growing in the forest. It often settles near birches, begins to bear fruit in August and gives good yields throughout September.

Edibility

The superb webcap (Cortinarius praestans) is an edible but little-studied mushroom. It can be dried, and also can be eaten salted or pickled.

Similar types and differences from them

The excellent spider web (Cortinarius praestans) has one similar species - the watery blue spider web. True, in the latter, the cap has a bluish-gray color and a smooth edge, covered with a cobweb cortina.

Lazy webcap - Cortinarius bolaris

Written by Nikolay Budnik and Elena Meck.

2. At the end of July, you can already find these mushrooms.

3. They usually grow one at a time.

4. Sometimes you come across small families.

5. Here you see a family of three mushrooms.

7. And this cobweb grew and grew old alone.

10. Lazy cobweb grows in damp places.

12. . often among green moss and blueberries.

14. Usually these are birches and pines with occasional Christmas trees.

15. The size of the mushroom is small.

17. Young mushrooms are very small.

18. The cap of the mushroom is covered with small red scales.

19. Sometimes there are few of them.

21. These scales are a distinctive feature of the fungus.

22. It happens that along the edge of the hat, lines are visible, as it were.

23. They form concentric circles.

26. They are light clay in color, like most cobwebs.

29.. with a reddish tint.

33.. and brownish.

35. In an old mushroom, the leg becomes curved.

36. The flesh of mushrooms is low-fleshy.

39.This is how a lazy spider web grows beautifully.

And now a small video filmed in the forests of Uloma Zheleznaya

2017 film

Common webcap (Cortinarius trivialis) what it looks like, where and how it grows, edible or not

Common webcap: photo and description

Name:	Common webcap
Latin name:	Cortinarius trivialis
Type of:	Inedible
Specifications:	Group: lamellar Plates: adherent with a tooth
Systematics:	Department: Bas> Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes) Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes) Subclass: Agaricomycet> Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar) Family: Cortinariaceae (Spiderwebs) Genus: Cortinarius (Webcap) Species: Cortinarius trivialis (Common webcap)

The common webcap (lat.Cortinarius trivialis) is a small mushroom of the Cobweb family. The second name - Pribolotnik - he received for preference to growing conditions. It is found in wet, swampy areas.

A detailed description of the Common Webcap with photos and videos is presented below.

Description of the common webcap

The mushroom was called a cobweb for a kind of "veil" of a cobweb film that is present in young specimens. The rest of the appearance is unremarkable.

Description of the hat

Pribolotnik's cap is small: 3-8 cm in diameter. At the initial stage of development, it has the shape of a hemisphere, which is later revealed. The color of the cap ranges from pale yellow tones to ocher and light brown shades. The core is darker than the edges.

The cap is sticky to the touch, there is a small amount of mucus on it. The surface of the hymenophore is lamellar. In young fruit bodies, it is white, and in mature specimens it darkens to yellowish and brown tones.

The pulp is dense and fleshy, white, with a harsh odor.

Leg description

The leg is 6-10 cm in height, the diameter is 1.5-2 cm. Slightly narrowed towards the base. There are specimens with a reverse structure - there is a small expansion at the bottom. The color of the leg is white, closer to the ground it darkens to a brown tint. Above from the cobweb blanket are brown concentric fibrous bands. From the middle of the leg to the base - weakly expressed.

Where and how it grows

Podbolnik can be found under birches and aspens, rarely under alder. It rarely lives in coniferous forests. Grows singly or in small groups in damp places.

In Russia, the distribution area of the species falls on the middle climatic zone.

Fruiting from July to September.

Edible webcap common or not

The nutritional properties of the Common Webcap have not been studied, but it does not apply to edible mushrooms. This species cannot be eaten.

Related specimens contain dangerous toxins in the pulp.

Poisoning symptoms, first aid

The danger of toxic species of this family is that the first signs of poisoning appear gradually: up to 1-2 weeks after eating mushrooms. Symptoms look like this:

intense thirst;
nausea, vomiting;
stomach ache;
spasms in the lumbar region.

If you find the first signs of poisoning, you must urgently consult a doctor or call an ambulance. Before receiving qualified treatment, you need to:

flush the stomach using activated charcoal;
plentiful drink (3-5 tbsp. boiled water in small sips);
take a laxative to cleanse the intestines.

Doubles and their differences

The podbolnik is confused with other members of the family, as they are quite similar. The greatest similarity is noted with the mucous webcap (lat.Cortinarius mucosus).

The hat is 5-10 cm in diameter. It has a thin edge and a thick center, abundantly covered with transparent mucus. The leg is slender, cylindrical, 6-12 cm long, 1-2 cm thick.

It differs from Pribolotnik in abundant mucus and the shape of a cap.

Grows in coniferous and mixed forests under pine trees. Bears fruit singly.

The slime webcap (lat.Cortinarius mucifluus) is another twin of the Pribolotnik, which is confused with the mucous webcap because of a similar name. The hat with a diameter of 10-12 cm is abundantly covered with mucus. The stem is 20 cm long in the form of a spindle, also covered with mucus. Prefers coniferous forests.

It differs from Pribolotnik in abundant mucus and a longer leg.

Conclusion

The common webcap is an inedible mushroom, its properties have not been fully studied. Can be confused with other members of the family, the use of which is not recommended. The greatest similarity is noted with the Slime Webcap and the Slime Webcap, but they can be distinguished by their cap. In the latter, it is abundantly covered with mucus.

Additional information about the common webcap: