Common scaly (Pholiota squarrosa)
Systematics:- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)
- Genus: Pholiota (Scaly)
- Species: Pholiota squarrosa (Common scaly)
- Other names for the mushroom:
- Scaly fleecy
- Scaly scales
- Scale dry
Other names:
Scaly fleecy
Scaly scales
Scale dry
Spread
Scale grows from mid-July to early October (massively from late August to late September) in different forests on dead and living wood, on trunks, at the base around the trunks, on the roots of deciduous (birch, aspen) and, less often, coniferous (spruce) trees , on stumps and around them, in groups-bunches, colonies, not infrequently, annually
Common scaly (Pholiota squarrosa) - fungi that live on wood, they can be both saprotrophs and parasites. Young fruits have a blanket that breaks later, and its remnants can remain at the edges of the cap or form a ring on the stem.
Common flake - The most common type of flake. It grows in Europe. North America and Japan, appearing in summer and autumn on roots, stumps and at the base of the trunks of beech, apple, spruce. It is an edible mushroom of poor quality , as its flesh is tough and it tastes bitter. Several related species are similar in color to common scaly. In the fall, mushroom pickers often confuse common scaly with autumn honeydew, however, honeydew is not hard and large-scaled.
Description
Common scaly (Pholiota squarrosa) has a cap with a diameter of 6-8 (sometimes up to 20) cm, at first hemispherical, then convex and convex-outstretched, with numerous protruding pointed, flat lagging large scales of ocher-brown, ocher-brown on a pale - yellow or pale ocher background.
Leg 8-20 cm long and 1-3 cm in diameter, cylindrical, sometimes narrowed towards the base, dense, solid, one-color with a cap, rusty-brown at the base, with a scaly ring, smooth above it, light, below it - with numerous concentric lagging ocher brown scales.
Plates: frequent, thin, adherent or slightly descending, light, yellowish-brownish, brownish-brownish with age.
Disputes:
Ocher spore powder
Pulp:
Thick, fleshy, white or yellowish, according to the literature, reddish in the leg, without a special smell.
Video about the mushroom Scalychia:
Edibility
Edible mushroom (according to some experts, conditionally edible, and even for some reason inedible), is used fresh (boiled for about 20 minutes) in the second courses, it is more tasty in salted and pickled with spices. The spruce form is slightly bitter, it is better to salt and pickle it. Legs are collected only from young mushrooms with an unopened cap and yellowish (not brownish) pulp.