Umbrella red (Cystodermella cinnabarina) photo and description

Umbrella red (Cystodermella cinnabarina)

Systematics:
  • Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
  • Family: Agaricaceae (Champignon)
  • Genus: Cystodermella (Cystodermella)
  • Species: Cystodermella cinnabarina (Umbrella red)
    Other names for the mushroom:

  • Cystoderm is red
  • Cystoderm cinnabar red

Other names:

  • Cystoderm cinnabar red

  • Umbrella red

  • Cystoderma cinnabarinum

Umbrella red (Cystoderma cinnabarinum)

Description:

A hat with a diameter of 5-8 cm, convex with a curled edge, then convex-outstretched with a lowered edge, often tuberous, fine-grained, with small sharp red scales, bright red, orange-red, sometimes with a darker center, with white flakes along the edge

Plates are frequent, thin, poorly adherent, light, whitish, later cream

Spore powder white

The leg is 3-5 cm long and 0.5-1 cm in diameter, cylindrical, widened towards the thickened base, fibrous, hollow. Above it is smooth, whitish, yellowish, under the ring is reddish, lighter than the cap, scaly-granular. Ring - narrow, grainy, light or reddish, often fading

The pulp is thin, whitish, reddish under the skin, with a mushroom odor

Spread:

The red umbrella lives from the end of July to October in coniferous (most often pine) and mixed (with pine) forests, singly and in groups, not often

Rating:

Umbrella red - Little-known edible mushroom, used fresh (boiling for about 10-15 minutes).