Mushrooms Calocybe gambosa (Calocybe May)

This genus was isolated fromTricholoma kind in connection with the difference in the anatomy of the fruiting bodies . In the new genus now includes about 20 species, of which the most common Calocybe May and is known . this fungus grows in the lowlands and mountains groups, stripes and circles, appearing more often grass in gardens, on the slopes, in the parks, forest edges . He apparently form mycorrhiza with shrubs andfamily trees rose-colored: roses, thorns, plum, hawthorn, and so on . n . In North Africa, its fruiting bodies can be found under the bushy oak . The fruits are typical for their whitish color, taste and smell them - strongly mealy . Summer and fall, sometimes in spring, you can find fruits are anatomically similar to Calocybe May, butstraw-yellow or yellow-ocher . Mushrooms with such color appear more often in deciduous forests . They are considered a form or Calocybe May (C . gambosa var . flavida), or a special kind - C . georgii . Both kinds of tasty and fragrant . Inattentive mushroom, however, may confuse them with several similar species, among them - and Inocybe erubescens, and Entolomatin - very poisonous mushrooms . Ca 1 osue gambosa (1) hat has a diameter of 2.5 - 8 cm feet Dimensions 5-8 / 1 - 2 cm . Hat, leg plates and whitish or cream-colored, smooth . The flesh is white, taste and smell - flour . Spore print white . The debate (2), colorless, 4-6 / 2 - 3.5 pM .   On May Calocybe like only young fruits Inocybe erubescens,which, however, have a color plate clay and flour smell .   In Entoloma tin (poisonous), too, are similar to Calocybe May only young fruits plate she painted a yellowish color and quickly turn pink, and it only grows in the forest . Cap 5 - 12 (15) cm diameter, hemispherical, after more or less flat, stretched out, withwavy, sometimes shovel-edge, white, cream, reddish, later occasionally gray - yellowish ko - brown, sometimes in the middle of lilac - cream . Plates white or cremated, very dense, narrow . Disputes 5- 7 x 3, 5 -4 m . 6-foot x 15 1 - 2 (3) See, white, off-white, sometimes creamy, fibrous, dense . The flesh is white, thick with the smell offlour . Distributed in Polesie and forest-steppe . It grows in the steppes, meadows, pastures, forests in the open, in May - September . Good edible mushroom . Use fresh .