Mushrooms Flammulina velvety (winter mushroom, honey agaric winter)

Flammulina velvety refers to a truly winter mushroom . It grows from November to March is almost everywhere . The fruits begin to appear, along with a decrease in temperature. At large frost covered with snow, they do not really grow and freeze through, but goodsaved, and costs frost retreat, come to life again . However, they can withstand a few alternations of frost and thaw . Flammulina velvety - only tree fungus . It grows on the dead and the living trunks and branches of deciduous trees, especially willow, poplar and basswood, but rarely on conifers . The fruits in various stages of developmentoften collected in large groups, where you can see a number of young and caps semi spherical shape and prominent old, flat, drop plates with white pollen on slippery cap mushrooms growing up . Flammulina velvety excellent edible mushroom . In some countries, such as In Japan, it is grown in an industrial environment for cutting outwheat straw, and in the nature of lime and willow on pruning and tree stumps that are watered with crushed hats Flammulina . This fungus Japanese scientists have identified a compound flammulin that in experiments on mice significantly delayed the growth of cancers. Maybe in the future it would be promising for the treatment of people . On Flammulinavelvety like a very rare kind of akin to F . ononidis, growing on the underground parts of the bush Ononis spinosa . has a slick hat diameter of 2 - 8 cm, painted in yellow-brown, yellow-ocher, brown color . The plates are attached to the stem, white to cream . Leg sizes 3-10 / 0.3 - 0.8 cm, hairy, top off-white to creamshade in the middle - a rusty, yellow-brown, chestnut at the bottom - or rusty-brown Flesh creamy, bland taste and smell . Spore print white . spores, colorless, 6,7-10,3 / 2.5 - 4.5 p . m Cystidium (basidia Protect against damage from above) fusiform . Local name - lubinka winter . Russian name - winter mushroom . Fromfamily triholomovih - Tricholomataceae . Cap 2 - 9 (12) cm in diameter, thin-fleshy, convex - or flat-spreading, orange - red, rusty -yellow, yellowish -, tan - or orange - brownish, darker in the center, with a thin, light edge naked, sticky, shiny with desiccation . Plates rare, whitish, cream or yellowish, with desiccationpink - yellow . pustules creamy-white . The debate (7) 8 - 9 (10) X 3 (4 - 6) um, smooth . 3 Leg 10 x 0, 5 1, 5 cm mainly long Tapered outgrowth, dense with age empty, durable, cork, tan - dark - brown, down a dark, black - brown, all hairy - Fluffy . The flesh is white or yellowish, in the bottom of the legdark, slightly unpleasant odor, boiled smells nice . Found throughout Ukraine on the stumps and trunks of deciduous, coniferous trees occasionally, groups in September - December . Good edible mushroom in the young state (only edible hat) . Use fresh and dried .