Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Pholiota lenta

Pholiota lenta - Hat diameter 30-100 mm, young arched, oblique, flat. The surface is slippery, strongly slimy, with white, unstable, scaly wisps floating in the airlock; with age naked. Colors light, flesh-brown, clay, gray, with a darker center. The shore is whitish, sharp, for a long time rolled up, with slimy remains of the casing.

Lamellae soft, quite thick, of various length, adnate or slightly converging; color of bladool-yellowish, with brown clay age.

Stem 20-90 mm high, 4-13 mm thick; cylindrical, flexible, full, sometimes bent. On the dry surface, fibrous-scaly; off-white; in the upper part, smooth, slightly soaked, with a slightly marked coronal ring zone; the bottom is zigzagly hollow, brownish.

Ring marked only ring zone, veil, like in the membranes.

Hard flesh. The whitish color, in the bottom and at the edges of the stalk is bronzing. Radish flavor, unspecified odor.

Occurrence: In damp deciduous, mixed, less coniferous forests; on plant debris - leaves, needles, bark, rotting branches buried in the ground. It grows in groups; from September to November. Frequent.

Value: Edible fungus, only hats, although opinions on this subject are divided.