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Stinking row or Tricholoma inamoenum is a small-sized lamellar mushroom. Mushroom pickers sometimes call this representative of the Ryadovkovs an unpleasant fly agaric. This mushroom is dangerous for the body - eating it has a detrimental effect on the well-being of humans and animals. To avoid an accident, it is important to know how to distinguish stinking tricholoma.
Where does the stinking row grow?
The main habitat of stinking grass is long-term dark and damp mixed forests, conifers with an abundance of green moss. Tricholoma can occur both in groups and individually from the last third of July to the end of October. It is considered a fan of slightly acidic and calcareous soils. This mushroom forms mycorrhiza together with oak, pine, spruce or fir.In Russia, stinking grass was found in the forest area of the southwestern part of the Amur region, as well as in the taiga territory of Western Siberia, Ugra. More often found in beech and hornbeam forest areas of European countries such as Lithuania and Finland.
What does the smelly row mushroom look like?
The cap of a young tricholoma has the shape of a hemisphere or bell with an edge curved towards the stem. In adulthood, it becomes flat with a bump in the central part, convex or, in rare cases, cup-shaped. Its surface is uneven and matte. The size of the cap of the row varies between 1.5-8 cm. This part of the mushroom can be milky, honey, pale ocher, fawn and dirty pink, in the center the shades are more saturated, contrasting or dark.
The unpleasant fly agaric is classified as a lamellar mushroom. This organism has adherent or notched thick, wide plates of a white or dull yellow hue, their teeth are downward. Rarely planted. Tricholoma reproduces using whitish ellipsoidal spores.
The upper and lower parts of the cap zone mainly look like this:
The cylindrical or conical leg of the mushroom grows 5-12 cm in length. It is quite thin and slender, reaching 0.3-1.8 cm in thickness, often becoming wider near the ground.
The leg is fibrous, smooth or “powdered” with a felt coating. It comes in milky, cream, honey, ocher or dusty pink shades, becoming more colored or darker towards the base.
Dense and tight flesh is white or the same shade as the mushroom cap. The smell resembles lighting or coke oven gas, naphthalene or tar, and when broken it resembles flour or starch. This is typical for rows due to the content of benzopyrrole and mushroom alcohol.The pulp has a mild mealy taste, which later becomes musty and bitter.
Is it possible to eat stinking row
Tricholoma stinking is not suitable for consumption due to the presence of a pungent chemical odor and rancid taste.
Moreover, it is an inedible hallucinogenic mushroom that is dangerous to human health. Already an hour after eating this representative of the Ryadovkovs, visual, gustatory and auditory images are observed in the absence of a corresponding external stimulus. If the hallucinogenic mushroom was taken on an empty stomach, the effect appears earlier and in a stronger form.
First of all, the arms and legs become heavier, the pupils dilate, goosebumps appear, thermoregulation is disrupted, dizziness and nausea occur. The person also feels drowsy.
Subsequently, the colors are perceived as more saturated, and it begins to seem to the user of the mushroom that parallel lines intersect. After an hour, the peak of reality distortion is monitored.
Similar species
Stinking Tricholoma is similar to other representatives of the Oryadovaceae: white Tricholoma album, Tricholoma lascivum, Tricholoma sulphureum and Tricholoma stiparophyllum.
White tricholoma is large in size compared to stinking row. The cap of this mushroom is gray-yellow and has a widely spread, convex shape. You can also find ocher-colored spots on the white row. The stem of the mushroom is dirty yellow and reaches 5-10 cm in length.The pulp of such a row is thick, its smell depends on the area of growth; in Russia, a mushroom with a moldy smell is more common, and outside the country - with a honey or rare aroma. This representative of the Ryadovkovs is considered a poisonous, inedible mushroom. This is what it looks like in the photo:
Mushroom pickers often dedicate their videos to the white mushroom row:
Tricholoma intricately has a cap 30-80 mm in diameter, with a raised edge and a bulge in the center. The surface of the cap of this row is smooth and, unlike the smelly row, glossy. off-white, yellowish or milky. The plates are located at the bottom of the cap. The stem of the mushroom is 6-9 cm long and 1-1.5 cm thick, white or brownish in color. The upper part has a coating resembling flakes. The pulp has a sweet smell and an unpleasant, bitter taste. Tricholoma inquisitive is considered mildly poisonous and looks like this:
Tricholoma sulfur-yellow has a cap with a diameter of 2.5-10 cm, which becomes more and more concave over time. This part of the mushroom is rich yellow in color compared to the smelly row.
The stem of the sulfur-yellow row has the shape of a cylinder and reaches a length of 3-10 cm. It is the same color as the cap part. The surface of the leg becomes covered with scales over time. The smell is reminiscent of burning gas lamps. The taste of the pulp is mealy and bitter. Tricholoma sulfur yellow is poisonous and, when eaten, affects the digestive and nervous systems.
This mushroom is described in the video:
Tricholoma chastoplate is more similar to the stinking rower than the previous representatives of the genus Rowadovaceae. The mushroom cap is heterogeneously colored in cream, white, fawn and ocher shades.The described part of the common-plate row has a diameter of 4-14 cm, and the leg of this organism reaches 7-12 cm in length and 0.8-2.5 cm in thickness. This mushroom is not eaten as it has an unpleasant odor of waste or coke oven gas and a rancid, pungent taste. Tricholoma chastoplate is shown in the photo:
In addition, stinking tricholoma has similarities with sticky hebeloma (Hebeloma crustuliniforme). The cap of a yellowish, nutty, whitish or rarely brick shade reaches a diameter of 30-100 mm:
The surface of the cap skin is dry and glossy. Hollow leg 30-100 mm long and 10-20 mm thick. It is usually the same color as the cap and covered with flake-like scales. Unlike tricholoma, hebeloma has a dark, brown subcap. The smell of the last sticky one is similar to radish, the taste of the pulp is bitter. This mushroom is considered poisonous.
Conclusion
Stinking rower is not so common in forest areas of Russia. However, it is dangerous to human health, so information about the appearance, taste, aroma and places of growth of this mushroom will be useful for both beginners and experienced mushroom pickers.
