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Peziza cerea or wax mushroom is an interesting in appearance mushroom from the Pezizaceae family and the Peziza genus. It was first described by James Sowerby, an English naturalist in 1796. Its other synonyms:
- peziza vesiculosa var. Cerea;
- macroscyphus cereus;
- basement pustularia;
- basement cup, from 1881;
- calyx, wall or cover, wood, since 1907;
- Galactinia integumentary or basement, since 1962;
- geopyxis muralis, since 1889;
- wall or cover coat, since 1875
What does a basement dog look like?
When young, the fruiting bodies are dome-shaped, shaped like a cognac glass with a jagged edge. Sessile, attached to the substrate by the lower part of the cap or a rudimentary stalk. With age, the regular inverted sphere becomes curved-wavy, broken, and flattened. Often opens to a saucer-shaped or prostrate state. The edge becomes uneven and torn.
The bowl size ranges from 0.8 to 5-8 cm in diameter. Hymenium – inner surface – varnish-shiny, waxy. The outer one is rough, covered with small adjacent scales-grains. The color is cream, beige-golden, honey, brownish-yellow, ocher. The pulp is brittle, white or coffee with milk. The spore powder is white or slightly yellowish.
The mushroom resembles fancy flower buds
Where and how does it grow
This variety is widespread, especially often found in America and Europe. Able to grow and develop in closed, damp areas throughout all seasons. Outdoors it begins to develop with the onset of warm days and before frost.
Loves moist, shaded places. Basements, abandoned houses and gullies, rotting over-rotted plant remains and manure. Feels great on wet mortar, between road slabs, on rotting rags, and sandbags.
Basement petsitsa can exist on vertical concrete walls, fragments of boards and other building materials
Is the mushroom edible or not?
Classified as an inedible species due to its low nutritional value. The pulp has an unpleasant damp basement smell mixed with mushroom.
The jagged edge of the “cups” has a distinct dark, burnt edge.
Doubles and their differences
The cellar petsica has similarities with individual representatives of its species, but is easily identified by its habitat - basements.
Bladderwort. Conditionally edible. It has a yellowish-cream color, its edges without pronounced denticles.
This species grows up to 7 cm in diameter and has hard, tasteless and odorless flesh.
Conclusion
The cellar or wax terrier settles in warm, humid places. Inedible, no toxicity data found, has a double. Loves closed underground rooms, abandoned wooden buildings, cellars. It can live on burlap and rags, on plywood and manure heaps, at the joints of slabs and house foundations. It grows everywhere from May to October, and in warm rooms all year round.
