Hericium curly , or blackberry mustache ( Latin: Hericium cirrhatum ) - a type of mushroom - basidiomycetes , belonging to the genus Hericia of the Hericiaceae family.
| Curly curious |
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| Scientific classification |
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| Kingdom : | Higher mushrooms |
| Department: | Basidiomycetes |
| Subdivision : | Agaricomycotina |
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| International scientific name |
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Hericium cirrhatum ( Pers. ) Nikol. 1950 |
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Forms tiled clusters of hats with spines on both sides - pressed down from above, protruding from below. It is edible at a young age, while the pulp is soft enough.
Content
Fruit bodies are hat-shaped, skull-shaped, fused at the base, white or pinkish, with aging, when they get dry, they get a distinct yellow hue. The upper surface of the caps is covered with pressed spines or felt. The edge of the hats is blunt to sharp, often fringed.
Spines of the hymenophore are dense, long (up to 1 cm), pointed, whitish, and when dirty, brownish.
The pulp is thick, white or pinkish in color, when dried, yellowish, soft, with age becomes soft-cork.
Spore imprint of white color. Spores 3.5-4 × 3-3.5 microns, widely elliptical or almost spherical. Two- and four-spore basidia , 15-22 × 5-6.5 microns. Cystides are absent.
Edible mushroom at a young age, soon becoming too stiff.
It occurs in July - September in broad-leaved and mixed forests. Woody saprotroph, growing on stumps and dry birch , oak , beech , hornbeam , less often aspen , tulip tree .
A species widespread in the non-moral zone of the Northern Hemisphere, known in Russia from the European part and Western Siberia.
