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Entoloma sepium belongs to the Entolomaceae family, where there are up to a thousand species. Mushrooms are also known as light brown or pale brown entoloma, blackthorn, hemlock, and in the scientific literature - rosemary.
What does Entoloma sepium look like?
The mushrooms are quite noticeable due to their large size and light color against the background of grass and dead wood. Outwardly they also have some similarity to russula.
Description of the cap
Entoloma pale brown has large caps from 3 to 10-14 cm. Semi-closed from the beginning of development, the cushion-shaped cap gradually becomes expanded. When the top enlarges and opens, a tubercle remains in the center, the border is wavy and uneven.
Other signs of the Entoloma sepium cap:
- color grey-brown, brownish-yellow, becomes lighter after drying;
- the fine-fiber surface is smooth and silky to the touch;
- after rain, sticky, darker in color;
- Young blackthorns have white plates, then cream and pinkish-brown;
- whitish, dense pulp, brittle, flabby with age;
- The smell of flour is slightly noticeable, the taste is fresh.
Description of the leg
The tall stalk of Entoloma sepium, up to 3-14 cm, 1-2 cm wide, cylindrical, thicker at the base, can bend, unstable on the litter. The young one is filled with pulp, then hollow. There are small scales on the longitudinally fibrous surface. The color is grayish cream or white.
Is the mushroom edible or not?
Entoloma pale brown is a conditionally edible species. Mushrooms are used after boiling for 20 minutes for frying, pickling, and pickling. The broth is drained. It is noted that these mushrooms taste better when marinated.
Where and how does it grow
The podlivnik is thermophilic and is rare in Russia. Distributed in mountainous areas of Asia: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan. Grows on leaf litter, dead wood, in damp areas, under pink-flowered fruit trees: plum, cherry, cherry plum, apricot, hawthorn, blackthorn.
Doubles and their differences
Entoloma sepium, depending on the degree of color, is confused:
- with the same conditionally edible Entoloma garden, grayish-brown in color, which grows in the middle zone under apple trees, pears, rose hips, hawthorn from May to the end of July;
- May mushroom, or May row, with a light fruiting body of dense structure, a club-shaped stalk, which is highly valued by mushroom pickers.
Conclusion
Entoloma sepium is valued in its distribution area for its good volume of fruiting body. But the literature notes that the species can be confused with many unstudied entholomas that contain toxins. Therefore, it is collected only by experienced mushroom pickers.
