Cobweb blue , bluish , or blue-blue ( lat. Cortinarius caerulescens ) - a species of fungi that is part of the genus Cobweb ( Cortinarius ) of the family Cobweb ( Cortinariaceae ).
| Cobweb gray-blue |
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| Kingdom : | Higher mushrooms |
| Department: | Basidiomycetes |
| Subdivision : | Agaricomycotina |
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| International scientific name |
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Cortinarius caerulescens ( Schaeff. ) Fr. , 1838 |
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Content
Large lamellar hat-leg mushroom with a cobwebbed bedspread. The cap of adult mushrooms reaches 5-10 cm in diameter, is hemispherical in young mushrooms, then opens to convex and flat, mucous, and fibrous when dried. The color of young mushrooms is blue, then it becomes light = ocher, along the edge with a persistent bluish tint. Gimenophore plates grown by a notch to the peduncle are bluish in young fruiting bodies, turn brown with age.
The flesh is grayish-bluish, with a fresh taste and an unpleasant odor.
The pedicle reaches 4β6 cm in length and 1.2β2.5 cm in thickness, with a noticeable tuber-like thickening at the base, with bluish-violet, at the base - a buffy-yellow surface.
The spore imprint is rusty brown. Spores 8-12 Γ 5-6.5 microns, almond-shaped, with a warty surface.
Little-known edible mushroom .
Similar Views
- Cortinarius mairei ( MMMoser ) MMMoser, 1967 - Mayor's Cobweb - features whitish plates.
- Cortinarius cyaneus ( Bres. ) MMMoser, 1967 and Cortinarius terpsichores Melot , 1989 - are distinguished by a darker color, the radial-fibrous surface of the cap and the usually disappearing remains of the cap on the cap.
- Cortinarius cumatilis Fr., 1838 - A watery-blue cobweb - is distinguished by a bluish-gray, more uniformly colored hat, the absence of pronounced remnants of the bedspread and tuberous thickening.
- Cortinarius volvatus AHSm. , 1939 - differs in much smaller sizes, always dark blue in color, growing under coniferous trees.
Quite widespread in the non-moral zone of Europe and North America . It usually grows in fairly large groups, in broad-leaved and mixed forests, forms mycorrhiza with beech and other deciduous trees.
On the territory of Russia noted in the Primorsky Territory .
