Anise Talker (Clitocybe odora)
Systematics:- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Tricholomataceae (Tricholomaceae or Ordinary)
- Genus: Clitocybe (Clitocybe or Talker)
- Species: Clitocybe odora (Aniseed talker)
- Other names for the mushroom:
- Fragrant talker
- Fragrant talker
Other names:
Fragrant talker
Fragrant talker
Hat:
Diameter 3-10 cm, bluish-green in youth, convex, with a curled edge, then fading to yellow-gray, prostrate, sometimes concave. The pulp is thin, pale gray or pale green, with a strong aniseed-dill aroma and weak taste.
Plates:
Frequent, descending, pale greenish.
Spore powder:
White.
Leg:
Length up to 8 cm, thickness up to 1 cm, thickened at the base, cap color or lighter.
Spread:
Grows from August to October in coniferous and deciduous forests.
Similar species:
There are a lot of similar ryadovok and talkers; Clitocybe odora can be unmistakably distinguished by a combination of two features: a characteristic color and anise smell. One single sign does not mean anything yet.
Edibility:
The mushroom is edible, although the strong smell persists after cooking. In a word, not for everybody.
Video about the mushroom Aniseed talker:
Notes:
This mushroom is attractive at least because it allows you to identify itself with a high degree of probability, which cannot be said about many other representatives of the genus Clitocybe. As practice has shown, with a sufficient harvest (and in dry warm weather), it can be determined without picking it up and not even bending down. You can not see him at all: the thick smell of anise is given out by the mushroom head. If someone likes this scent, it makes sense to rip off a few young hats and put them on the bottom of the basket; walk like this for several hours, and all summer it will seem that the anise talker is somewhere nearby.