Collibia fusiform (Gymnopus fusipes)
Systematics:- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Omphalotaceae (Omphalot)
- Genus: Gymnopus (Gymnopus)
- Species: Gymnopus fusipes (Colibia fusiform)
Synonyms:
Spindle-footed money
Agaricus crassipes
Agaricus fusipes
Collybia fusipes
Collybia contorta
Collibia fusiform grows on stumps, trunks and roots of old deciduous trees, often on oaks, beeches, chestnuts. Distributed in deciduous forests. Season: summer - autumn. It bears fruit in large clusters.
The cap is 4 - 8 cm in ∅, convex at an early age , then flatter , with a blunt tubercle, often of irregular shape. The color is red-brown, later lighter.
The pulp is whitish , fleshy , with light fibers, tough. The taste is soft, the smell is faint.
Leg 4 - 8 × 0.5 - 1.5 cm, the same color as the cap, darker at the base. The form is verteniform, refined at the base, with a tapered outgrowth that deeply penetrates into the substrate; first solid, then hollow. The surface is furrowed, wrinkled, often longitudinally curled.
The plates are loose or loose, sparse, of various lengths. Color - from whitish to cream, with rusty-brown spots. The remains of the bedspread are missing. Spore powder is white. Spores 5 × 3.5 μm, broadly oval.
Similar species : Winter honey fungus - conditionally edible mushroom
Colibia spindle-footed mushroom is usually considered inedible . However, some authors argue that the youngest fruiting bodies can be eaten, they have an exquisite taste. The old ones can cause mild poisoning.