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Pine hymnopil is a lamellar mushroom belonging to the Hymenogastrov family, the Gymnopil genus. Other names are moth, spruce hymnopil.
What does pine hymnopil look like?
The cap of the pine hymnopil is first convex, bell-shaped, then becomes flat. Its surface is dry and smooth, sometimes with scales, begins to crack with age. The cap has a fibrous structure. It is darker in the center, lighter at the edges. The color is yellow, golden, ocher with brownish or brownish tints. The diameter is 8 to 10 cm.
The plates are thin, wide, sometimes accrete with a tooth. In young specimens, they are light amber, in old ones - brownish, spots may appear on them. Spore powder, orange-brown, rusty.
The pulp is golden, yellow, firm, elastic, at the break it immediately darkens. The smell is unpleasant, sour, reminiscent of rotten wood, sharp, bitter taste.
The leg is low, grows up to 5 cm, can be curved. Closer to the cap - hollow inside, solid at the base. Traces of the bedspread are visible on the surface. The color is brown at first, then gradually turns white and becomes creamy, at the break it acquires a brown tint.
The pine hymnopil is similar to other members of the genus
One of them - penetrating hymnopil, which has smaller fruiting bodies. The hat is round at first, then becomes open. Diameter - from 3 to 8 cm. The color is rusty-brownish with a darker center. The surface is dry, oily after rain. The height of the leg is about 7 cm. It is lighter, its surface is longitudinally fibrous, with a whitish bloom in places. Grows on rotting pines and other conifers. Fruiting time is from August to November. Not edible, with bitter flesh.
Penetrating hymnopil is often found, but it is not very noticeable in the forest.
Hymnopillus of Juno... Large, outwardly spectacular, with a yellow or orange cap, the diameter of which reaches 15 cm. Its surface is covered with scales that fit tightly to each other. The stem is fibrous, thickened, with a dark ring at the top. It grows in groups at the base of stumps, under oak trees, and often parasitizes on living trees. This hymnopil is inedible, not poisonous, very bitter. It used to be considered a hallucinogen.
Juno features a ring on a leg
Hymnopill hybrid... The diameter of the cap is from 2 to 9 cm. At first it is strongly convex, then outstretched with slightly curved edges and a tubercle in the center. The color is orange-yellowish with lighter edges. The plates are yellowish (in mature ones they are rusty-brown), frequent, descending. The stem is darker, central or eccentric, uneven, curving, 3 to 8 cm high, 4 to 9 mm thick. The pulp is whitish at first, then turns yellowish. Grows in groups in coniferous and deciduous forests from September to November. Prefers stumps and dead wood neighborhood. Inedible, tasteless.
Hybrid at a young age has a strongly convex hat
The main differences between flammulina: a velvety stem and a shiny cap, growing only on deciduous trees, a smaller size of the fruit body.
Winter honey fungus (flammulina) grows in large colonies only on deciduous trees
Where does the pine hymnopil grow
Found throughout Europe (including Russia) and North America. Fruiting time differs in different areas, falling from June to October.
It grows in coniferous forests, often comes across deciduous ones. Prefers dead wood, which inhabits in large groups, as well as rotting tree branches, stumps and their roots.
Is it possible to eat pine hymnopil
Refers to inedible. You cannot eat it.
Conclusion
Pine hymnopil is an inedible mushroom that grows on pines and spruces. Colonies of these orange mushrooms are a very beautiful sight.
