Edible webcap (Cortinarius esculentus)
Systematics:- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Cortinariaceae (Spiderwebs)
- Genus: Cortinarius (Webcap)
- Species: Cortinarius esculentus (Edible webcap (Fatty))
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Cortinarius edible or fatty (Cortinarius esculentus) - edible mushroom Cortinariaceae family.
The cap is fleshy, dense, with a thin, curled edge. Later, it becomes plano-convex, even depressed. The surface of the cap is smooth, moist, watery, whitish-grayish, 5-8 cm in diameter. The plates are wide, frequent, adherent to the stem, clayey in color. The stem is even, dense, whitish-brownish, in the middle with the remains of a cobweb picture, later disappearing, 2-3 cm long and 1.5-2 cm thick.
The pulp is thick, dense, white, the taste is pleasant, the smell of mushroom or weakly expressed.
The spore powder is yellow-brown, the spores are 9-12 × 6-8 microns in size, ellipsoidal, warty, yellow-brown.
The season is September - October.
Areal. Distributed in the European part of Russia, in the forests of Belarus. It settles in coniferous forests.
Has a sweet taste and a pleasant mushroom smell.
Similarity. The edible webcap can be confused with the varied edible webcap, from which it differs in a lighter color and in places of growth.
Edibility
Edible cobweb is eaten fried or salted.