Wet purple

The hat is 3–8 (12) cm in diameter , rather fleshy, in young specimens it is conical-round, with a cobwebby private veil of red-brown color, later it is flat-convex or prostrate, with a wide, blunted tubercle in the center and a strongly curled edge. The peel of the hat is smooth, shiny, in young mushrooms it is very mucous, especially in wet weather. The color of the hat varies from light brown, reddish to brick red or reddish with a purple hue; in young specimens, the center of the cap is colored in purple tones, with age, the color becomes more uniform, fades.

The flesh is fleshy, in the leg is fibrous, pinkish-yellowish, at the base of the leg is orange; without pronounced smell and taste. At the kink, it acquires a pinkish tint, it darkens when boiled.

The plates are arcuately descending, rare, thick, first ocher-pink or mauve, then purplish-brown, gradually acquiring a dirty brown, almost black color. In young specimens, the plates are closed with a private coverlet. The plates are easily separated from the head.

Leg 5–8 x 0.5–2 cm, solid, cylindrical, slightly narrowed to the base, often curved, slightly sticky, in the upper part with dark annular remnants of a private veil, disappearing with age; one color with a hat, but somewhat lighter. The pulp of the leg is fibrous, in the upper part - with a reddish tint, at the base - bright yellow, orange.

Mushrooms growing after autumn frosts often acquire a copper-purple color.

Spore powder is dark brown, almost black.

Microstructures

Spores 13.6-18.5 × 5.3-6.7 microns, fusiform, smooth, pale, brownish-orange, thick-walled.

Color chemical reactions : In the Meltzer reagent, spores become yellow-brown to light ocher. ^[2]

It grows on the soil in coniferous and mixed forests, along heaths , usually near pine trees , often on high ground. Forms mycorrhiza with pine, birch . It is especially common in light thinned pine forests and pine plantings along with Suillus granulatus and Suillus luteus . Prefers calcareous soils. It occurs singly or in small groups. Widely distributed in the northern temperate zone, on the territory of the Russian Federation - in the European part of Russia , in the Caucasus , in Siberia .

Season August - End of September

All species of mossbirds (of the genera Gomphidius and Chroogomphus ) have a certain similarity.

• Wet spruce is characterized by a grayish, bluish color of a hat; is a symbiont of spruce.
• Wet pink is easily distinguishable by a bright pink hat and light plates.
• Mokruha spotted is characterized by a gray-brown color of the cap, found under larches.
• Mokruha Swiss ( Chroogomphus helveticus ) has a hat with a "felt" surface, painted in ocher colors.
• In felt mokruha ( Chroogomphus tomentosus ), the cap is covered with whitish felt pubescence.

With poisonous and inedible mushrooms, mokruha purple does not resemble.

Little-known edible mushroom (4 categories), suitable for all types of cooking. The taste is close to butter . During heat treatment, it acquires a purple color, hence the Russian species name. Before cooking, you must remove the mucous membrane of the fungus.

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• Mokruha purple on the site "Mushrooms of the Leningrad region . "
• Mokruha purple on the site "We Mushrooms . "
• Mokruha purple on the site "Green Russia"
• Wet purple on RogersMushrooms .