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Mycena Rene (Mycena renati) is a small lamellar fruiting body from the Mycena family and the genus Mycena. It was first classified by the French mycologist Lucien Quelet in 1886. Other names:
- yellow-legged or yellowish mycena;
- the cap is beautiful;
- nitrate yellowfoot helmet.
Young mushrooms on the trunk of a fallen tree
What do Mycenae Rene look like?
The newly emerged Mycena Rene looks like a miniature bolt with a rounded-ovoid cap. In this case, the leg is noticeably longer than the apex. With age, the cap straightens out, first becoming conical, resembling a bell in its shape, then spread out, umbrella-shaped.Old mushrooms have straight or slightly concave caps, with a noticeable rounded tubercle at the junction with the stem. In such specimens the lighter fringe of the hymenophore is clearly visible. The diameter varies from 0.4 to 3.8 cm.
The color is uneven, the edges are noticeably lighter than the middle of the cap. The mushroom can be ocher-yellow, deep orange, soft pink, creamy beige, reddish-brown or brownish-yellow. The surface is dry, matte, smooth. The edge is finely toothed, slightly fringed, and sometimes has radial cracks. The pulp is transparent and thin, the scars of the plates are visible through it. It is brittle, white in color, and has a characteristic unpleasant odor of urea or bleach. Overgrown mycena Rene has pulp with a rich nitrogenous-rare odor, its taste is sweetish-neutral.
The hymenophore plates are straight, wide, and sparse. Incremented and slightly descending along the stem. Pure white in color when young, the mushrooms darken to a creamy yellow or soft pinkish hue when mature. Sometimes red or orange stripes appear along the edge. The spore powder is white or slightly creamy; the spores themselves are glassy-colorless.
The leg is long, thin, smooth or curved wavy. Tubular in shape, hollow inside. The surface is smooth, dry, yellow, sandy or light ocher, olive in color, with pubescence at the root. It grows from 0.8 to 9 cm in length and from 1 to 3 mm in diameter.
The lower part of the legs is covered with long white fluff
Where do Mycenae Rene grow?
This elegant, festively dressed mushroom is found in deciduous and mixed forests in the southern regions of the Northern Hemisphere.Widely distributed in Yugoslavia, Austria, France, Turkey, in Asia and the Far East, in the south of Russia, in the Krasnodar Territory and Stavropol Territory, in North America. Mycena Rene grows in large, closely knit colonies on fallen trees, trunks of rotting trees, stumps and large fallen branches. Prefers calcareous soils and deciduous wood - beech, poplar, oak, willow, birch, alder, hazel, aspen. Loves shaded, damp places, lowlands, ravines and banks of rivers and swamps. The period of active growth is from early summer to late autumn.
Elegant yellow-legged “bells” are visible against the background of brown-green bark from afar
Is it possible to eat Rene's mycenae?
Mycena Rene is classified as an inedible species due to its low nutritional value and the unpleasant chlorine or nitrogen odor of the pulp. There is no exact information about its toxicity.
Conclusion
Mycena Rene is a very bright small mushroom, inedible. It belongs to the saprophytes that grow on the remains of trees and process them into fertile humus. Found in deciduous forests on fallen trees, dead wood, and old stumps. Loves damp places. The mycelium bears fruit from May to November. It grows in large colonies, often covering the substrate with a continuous carpet. It is included in the lists of endangered species in several European countries.
