Sân de aspen (Sân de plop) (Lactarius controversus) fotografie și descriere

Aspen breast (Lactarius controversus)

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Piept Aspen (T. Lactarius controversialus) este o ciupercă din genul Lactarius (lat. Lactarius) din familia Russulaceae.

Descriere

Hat ∅ 6-30 cm, very fleshy and dense, flat-convex and slightly depressed in the center, in young mushrooms with slightly fluffy edges bent down. Then the edges straighten out and often become wavy. The skin is white or mottled with pink spots, covered with fine fluff and rather sticky in wet weather, sometimes with noticeable concentric zones, very often covered with adhering earth and fragments of forest litter.

The pulp is whitish, dense and brittle, with a slight fruity smell and a rather sharp taste. It secretes abundant white milky juice, which does not change in air, is bitter.

Leg 3-8 cm in height, strong, low, very dense and sometimes eccentric, often narrowed at the base, white or pinkish.

The plates are frequent, not wide, sometimes forked and descending along the stem, cream or light pink

Spore powder pinkish, Spores 7 × 5 µm, almost round, folded, veiny, amyloid.

Variabilitate

The color of the cap is white or with pink and lilac zones, often concentric. The plates are whitish at first, then they turn pink and finally become light orange.

Ecologie și distribuție

Aspen mushroom forms mycorrhiza with willow, aspen and poplar. It grows in damp aspen forests, poplar forests, is quite rare, usually bears fruit in small groups.

The aspen mushroom is common in the warmer parts of the temperate climate zone; in Our Country it is found mainly in the Lower Volga region.

Season July-October.

Specii asemanatoare

It differs from other light mushrooms by pinkish plates, from white volushka by a slight pubescence on the hat.

Calitatea alimentelor

A conditionally edible mushroom, it is used mainly in salted form, less often – fried or boiled in second courses. It is valued less than real and yellow breasts.