CALOCYBE

Genus
Calocybe
Species

Calocybe chrysenteron
Calocybe onychina
Calocybe gambosa

Description

Sporophore: 5-15 (20) cm; hemispherical hat then convex, a little spread out at the end, charnu, on sometimes irregular surface but generally a little velvety, blanchâtre with cream sometimes darker with tonalities orange or ocracées with margin rolled up, thick, concolore and separable, dry, thin coating;

Feather-grass: 3-6 (8) X 1-3 cm; cylindracé, squat and generally short, full, firm, fibrillous, blanchâtre, veil: absent and volva: goes away;

Flesh: thick, firm, white

Hymenophore: tightened blades, arched, thin, unequal, white with cream-coloured white; edges of the blades: acute, whole.

Morphological definition

cap domed, (creamy) white to beige or ochre; flesh soft and white; smell and taste strongly of (fresh) meal, edible and good; often growing in close groups or fairy rings; only in spring (March - May).

Availability

Saprophytic on humus-rich soil, mostly at the edges of woods and in shrubs, less often in deciduous woods.

Function

Edible Mushroom

Nucleotide, Protein Sequences&3D Structures