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The Micenov family is represented by small mushrooms growing in noticeable groups. Omphalina campanulata is one of the representatives of this family with a typical appearance.
What does Xeromphalina campanulate look like?
This species is distinguished by a stem height of up to 3.5 cm and a miniature cap reaching a diameter of up to 2.5 cm.
This mushroom grows in large colonies
Description of the cap
The size of the cap resembles a two-kopeck Soviet coin. It has the shape of an open bell with radial lines and a characteristic dimple in the middle.Gradually it straightens, the edges go down. The light brown surface of the omphalina is smooth and translucent. The plates located on the inside are visible through it. Between them there are alternating partitions.
The hats become lighter towards the edges
Description of the leg
The stalk is thin, up to 2 mm wide, widens upward, and becomes denser closer to the mycelium. Its color is brown, ocher, dark brown towards the base. The surface is covered with small fibers.
Legs are brittle, with slight drooping at the base
Where and how does it grow
It is found in spring, summer and autumn in coniferous forests of the temperate zone of Eurasia and North America. The mass appearance is noticed at the beginning of the mushroom season: in the absence of other mushrooms, they feel free on the stumps and grow over the entire area of the wood.
Is the mushroom edible or not?
There is no information about the edibility of the species. The thin pulp has no odor or mushroom taste.
Doubles and their differences
Miniature juvenile omphalines Campanulaceae can be confused with the scattered dung beetle. But the latter retain a light brown, gray tint until the end of ripening. The hats look like bells. The pulp has no smell or taste.
Scattered dung beetle is inedible
Xeromphalina Kaufmana - a fragile, flexible fruiting body with a diameter of up to 2 cm. It grows in a few colonies on stumps, rotting logs of deciduous trees, spruce, pine, fir in forests of temperate latitudes. Inedible.
The leg of Xeromphalina Kaufmann is curved, thin, light brown in color.
Conclusion
Omphalina campanulata is a miniature species that has no nutritional value.But this saprotroph is an important link in the ecological chain. It promotes the rapid decomposition of wood residues and their transformation into inorganic elements.
