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In the forest belt, you can often come across small fruiting bodies without a pronounced odor and bypass them. White creeper is an edible mushroom of the Pluteaceae family, also comes across among them.
What does a white lily look like?
Plutey is a small mushroom that is visible from afar due to its off-white color.
Description of the hat
The hat of the white spit at the beginning of ripening has a bell-shaped shape, then it gradually straightens out. The color also changes: from off-white to yellow-gray. In the center there is a characteristic brownish tubercle covered with small dry scales. The surface of the cap is smooth, fibrous. The inner part is covered with radial, slightly pinkish plates. A thin layer of pulp has a weakly pronounced rare odor. The size of the cap is 4-8 cm.
Leg description
Dense legs reach a height of 9 cm. It has the shape of a cylinder, expands at the base due to tuberous thickening. Grayish scales are found on the surface of the legs. Mushrooms do not always grow straight, sometimes they bend. The pulp is white, without a special smell.
Where and how it grows
The mushroom is quite rare. It occurs from June to September in the beech forests of Western Europe, deciduous plantations of the East European, West Siberian Plains, and the Ural Mountains. Was spotted in northern Africa. It grows on half-decayed wood of beech, oak and poplar, decaying foliage of these trees. It can be seen even in dry years. The white rogues are popularly called "kuchkovaty", since he does not appear alone, but in small groups.
Is the mushroom edible or not
White rods are considered edible. It retains its properties well when boiled, dried. Can be fried alone or with other mushrooms.
Doubles and their differences
Due to its white color, this species has practically no twins. But there are similar fruiting bodies:
- The light variety (albino) of the edible deer's spit (Pluteus cervinus) has a larger size, a shiny surface of the cap. It grows on both continents of America, Europe, Africa. Loves deciduous forests of Russia, appearing on decaying wood, rotten foliage.
- The edible northern whitefish (Pluteus leucoborealis) differs from white only microscopically: it has larger spores. The places of its distribution are the northern latitudes of our country from St. Petersburg to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It comes across in North America, Alaska, taking a liking to decaying hardwood.
- Deciduous forests of the Northern Hemisphere are the favorite places of the noble spit (Pluteus petasatus), where it grows in small groups. It can reach up to 20 cm. The hat is smooth, even sticky in wet weather. Grayish, brown longitudinal veins stand out on the peduncle. The fruit body is edible.
- Pluteus hongoi is another edible twin. Although it is darker in color, there are also lighter varieties of Hongo. They are rare on the territory of Russia.
Conclusion
The whip is white and all of the listed twins are edible species. Of similar poisonous fruit bodies, the white fly agaric is called, but it has distinctive features - a ring on a leg, large dark plates on the cap, and the smell of bleach. An experienced mushroom picker can quite easily distinguish them and take only one that is edible and does not pose a danger to humans.
