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Along with tubular lamellar mushrooms, they are the most abundant and most commonly eaten on the planet. The main characteristic of these fruiting bodies is the obligatory presence of a hymenophore in the form of plates. Previously, it was customary to combine all mushrooms with plates into the Agaric family. In the modern classification, they are divided into different groups. Which mushrooms are lamellar is described in detail in this material.

Lamellar mushrooms with white and gray plates

May row (Calocybe gambosa).

Family: Lyophilic (Lyophyllaceae)

Season: mid-May - mid-June

Growth: singly and in groups

Description:

The hat is humped, then half-spread, cream, then white.

The pulp is white, dense, with a taste and smell of fresh flour.

The stem is cylindrical, whitish, slightly yellowing, frequent, adherent, whitish. The plates are narrow, frequent, adherent, whitish.

It is used fresh (boiled for 10-15 minutes) in soups and main courses, can be dried and pickled.

Ecology and distribution:

These edible lamellar mushrooms are found in light deciduous forests, meadows, and gardens.

Lilac-footed row (Lepista personata).

Family: Ordinary (Tricholomataceae)

Season: mid-September - end of October

Growth: rarely singly, more often in groups, forming rings

Description:

In youth, the cap has a wrapped, straight edge.

The stem of young mushrooms is purple, flaky-fibrous. The cap is melted in diameter, light gray to brownish, even and smooth.

The plates are white or gray, uneven. The flesh is whitish or grayish, with a pleasant smell.

A good edible mushroom, does not require pre-boiling, has an excellent taste in pickled and salted form, suitable for drying.

Ecology and distribution:

These mushrooms with white plates grow in meadows, gardens, pastures, they are very fond of the soil fertilized by livestock.

The row is brown-yellow (Tricholoma fulvum).

Family: Ordinary (Tricholomataceae)

Season: Aug. Sept

Growth: singly or, more often, in groups

Description:

The pulp with a cucumber-flour groin. The cap is rounded, then worn out, with a tubercle, reddish-brown, reddish.

The leg is fusiform or puppy below, hollow, reddish.

The plates are notched or adherent to the tooth, white, frequent, with age, become covered with brown spots.

The mushroom is inedible due to its bitter taste.

Ecology and distribution:

Found in deciduous and mixed forests. Drought tolerant.

Separate row (Tricholoma sejunctum).

Family: Ordinary (Tricholomataceae)

Season: end of July - end of September

Growth: usually in small groups

Description:

The plates are grayish, silky, wide, sparse, forked-branched, with plates.

The leg is finely scaly, greenish-white at the top, dirty gray at the bottom, swollen at the base. The edges of the cap are slightly curved downward.

The cap is convex, with a conical tubercle, dark olive, mucous in damp weather. The flesh is white, yellowish under the skin of the cap and stem, with a smell of fresh flour, bitter.

Conditionally edible mushroom. After boiling, it is suitable for pickling.

Ecology and distribution:

Forms mycorrhiza with deciduous and coniferous trees. It is found mainly in deciduous and mixed forests, less often in conifers. Prefers damp places and fertile soils.

Earthy row (Tricholoma terreum).

Family: Ordinary (Tricholomataceae)

Season: mid-August - October

Growth: in groups

Description:

The cap is gray, at first broadly bell-shaped, then prostrate, washed with fibrous scales. The edge of the cap is wavy, cracking. The plates are adherent, wide, frequent, white or grayish.

The flesh is thin, white or grayish.

The leg is cylindrical, hollow, grayish.

These lamellar mushrooms with white plates are used fresh (boiling for about 15 minutes), can be salted and pickled.

Ecology and distribution:

It is found in coniferous and deciduous forests (often with pines), in plantings, in shrubs, in rare grass and on litter.

Udemansiella mucous (Oudemansiella mucida).

Family: Physalacriaceae

Season: mid-May - end of September

Growth: more often in bundles, less often alone

Description:

The cap is white, light gray or creamy brown, convex, with a mucous surface.

The pulp is firm, yellowish-whitish.

The plates are widely adherent, dense, white, with well-defined intervals. The leg is dry and smooth.

The mushroom is edible but almost tasteless.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows on thick branches of living trees, on dead trunks of deciduous trees, more often on beech, maple, from base to crown. Distributed throughout the world. In Russia, it is common in the south of Primorye, in the European part it is rare.

Cystoderm amianthinum (Cystoderma amianthinum).

Family: Champignon (Agaricaceae)

Season: Aug. Sept

Growth: singly and in small groups

The cap is flat-convex or flat, with a blunt tubercle; color from reddish-brown to ocher-yellow. The cap in young mushrooms is conical or hemispherical. The flaky remnants of the veil along the edge of the cap. The edge of the cap is fringed. The ring is often absent.

The leg is solid, later - hollow, fibrous, of the same color with the cap.

The plates are unequal, narrow, frequent, adherent to the stem, white in young mushrooms, later yellowish.

The pulp is yellowish, with a moldy odor.

The mushroom is considered conditionally edible, but its taste is low.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows in conifers, less often in mixed forests, in clearings, sometimes in meadows, wastelands, in parks; in moss, among ferns, in lingonberries, often burrowing deeply into the forest floor.

Lamellar mushrooms with a brown or red cap

Entoloma pressed (Entoloma rhodopolium).

Family: Entolomaceae (Entolomataceae)

Season: Aug. Sept

Growth: in the grass and on leaf litter in groups, rows, rings

Description:

The cap of young mushrooms is bell-shaped, then opens to almost flat, dry, smooth, brown tones.

The pulp is brittle, whitish melting, slightly translucent, with a fresh smell.

The plates are rare, adherent to the pedicle, then with a tooth descending to it, with age they become bright pink.

The leg is white, smooth, with a wadded, then with a hollow middle.

The fungus invokes severe stomach poisoning: after 1-3 hours, headache, dizziness appear, then severe vomiting, diarrhea, lasting up to three days.

Ecology and distribution:

This brown-topped lamellar mushroom is found in deciduous and mixed forests, forming mycorrhiza with elm and birch.

Bracelet webcap (Cortinarius armillatus).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: end of July - mid-October

Growth: in groups and singly

Description:

There are several red irregular belts on the leg.

Flesh with a yellowish tinge and an unpleasant odor.

The cap is first bell-shaped, then prostrate, with a tubercle in the center, red-brown. The plates are adherent, wide, light brown. The cobweb cover is brownish-pinkish. The leg is club-shaped thickened at the base.

It is used fresh (boiled for 15 minutes) in second courses and pickled. It is better to collect young mushrooms with an unopened cap.

Ecology and distribution:

This lamellar mushroom with a reddish-brown cap is found in coniferous (with pine) and mixed forests (with birch), in humid places, at the edge of swamps, in moss.

Slimy webcap (Cortinarius mucosus).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: mid-August - end of September

Growth: in groups and singly

Description:

The cap is at first blunt-bell-shaped, then convex, reddish-brown, covered with a thick layer of mucus.

The leg is mucous, silky, white, with weak fibrous remains of the bedspread.

The pulp is at first firm, then soft, whitish. The plates are adherent to the tooth, brownish, with a serrated edge.

It is used fresh in second courses (after boiling), salted and pickled. It is better to collect young mushrooms with open caps.

Ecology and distribution:

It is found in dry pine and mixed forests, on sandy soils, in moss. Can accumulate heavy metals.

Plush webcap (Cortinarius orellanus).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: July - October

Growth: singly or in small groups

Description:

The pulp is yellowish or brownish, with a radish smell.

Slightly narrowed to the base, light yellow, with longitudinal fibrous scales, without belts. The plates are adherent, wide, thick, sparse, cap color.

The cap is convex, then flat, with a tubercle in the center, felt or fine-scaled, orange or red.

A deadly poisonous mushroom containing the orellanin toxin that damages the liver and kidneys. Symptoms of poisoning appear after 3-14 days.

Ecology and distribution:

It is found in deciduous forests, most often on sandy soils under oak and birch trees.

The most beautiful webcap (Cortinarius rubellus).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: Aug. Sept

Growth: singly or in small groups

Description:

The cap is conical, then prostrate-conical, with a sharp tubercle, fibrous, finely scaly, red.

The pulp is buffy, with a raw, rare odor.

Slightly thickened at the base, fibrous, cap-colored with lighter yellowish irregular bands. The plates are adherent or with a small notch, wide, sparse, thick, orange-buffy.

A deadly poisonous mushroom containing the toxin orellanin.

Ecology and distribution:

Forms mycorrhiza with spruce. Occurs in spruce and spruce-pine forests on slightly podzolic soils. Rare view. In Russia, it was found only on the Karelian Isthmus (Leningrad Region).

See what this lamellar mushroom looks like in the photo:

Red-plate webcap (Cortinarius semisanguineus).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: early August - late September

Growth: singly and in groups

Description:

The cap is convex, with a tubercle in the center, brownish or olive-brown.

The pulp is light brown.

The leg is the color of the cap or lighter, in the upper part with a purple tint, covered with threadlike remains of the veil. The plates are adherent, rare, blood-red or red-brown.

The mushroom is inedible, according to some sources, it is poisonous.

Ecology and distribution:

Widespread, grows in coniferous (pine) and mixed forests. Forms mycorrhiza with pine, possibly also with spruce.

The following are examples of other lamellar mushrooms with descriptions and photographs.

Examples of other lamellar mushrooms

Scaly row (Tricholoma scalpturatum).

Family: Ordinary (Tricholomataceae)

Season: June - end of October

Growth: often forms "witch circles", sometimes groups of mushrooms grow in bunches

Description:

The cap is first convex, then prostrate, sometimes concave, with a tubercle. The skin is fine-fibered or with small appressed scales, grayish.

The flesh is very fragile, white, the smell and taste are mealy.

The stalk is fibrous, grayish, sometimes with remnants of the veil in the form of scraps of skin. The plates are frequent, adherent to the tooth, yellowing.

Mushroom of mediocre taste. It is used fresh, salted, pickled after preliminary boiling.

Ecology and distribution:

A lamellar mushroom called ryadovka scaly grows in various types of forests, gardens, parks, forest shelters, in the grass, along the roadsides.

Row yellow-red (Tricholomopsis rutilans).

Family: Ordinary (Tricholomataceae)

Season: mid-July - end of October

Growth: in groups

Description:

The pulp is bright yellow, with a sour smell.

The cap is convex, the skin is orange-yellow, dry, velvety, covered with small purple scales. The plates are narrowly accreted, yellowish or bright yellow, sinuous.

The stem is solid, then hollow, often curved, with a thickening at the base, the same color as the cap.

Conditionally edible mushroom of low quality. Only young mushrooms are suitable for food. After boiling, they are consumed fresh, salted and pickled.

Ecology and distribution:

It is found in coniferous, mainly pine, forests, grows on dead wood.

Poisonous entoloma (Entoloma sinuatum).

Family: Entolomaceae (Entolomataceae)

Season: late May - early October

Growth: on clay soils singly and in small groups

Description:

The pulp is white, brownish under the skin of the cap, in mature mushrooms with an unpleasant odor.

The leg of young mushrooms is solid, at maturity - with a spongy filling.

The cap is initially convex, white, then prostrate, with a large tubercle, yellowish. The surface of the leg is white, silky, later ocher-yellowish, brownish when pressed. pinkish-meaty shade.

The fungus invokes severe gastric poisoning, like entoloma pressed through.

Ecology and distribution:

On the territory of Russia, it is found in the south of the European part, in the North Caucasus and in the south of Siberia. Grows in light deciduous and mixed forests (especially in oak forests) and parks, forming mycorrhiza with oak, beech, hornbeam.

Lazy webcap (Cortinarius bolaris).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: September October

Growth: groups of mushrooms of different ages

Description:

The pulp is white, yellowish or light orange.

The cap is convex, then almost flat, densely covered with small reddish scales.

The leg is reddish-brown, covered with reddish-red scales, sometimes with a thickening at the base. In the upper part of the leg there are reddish bands. The plates are adherent, slightly descending, at first light yellow, then rusty-ocherous in color.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows in various types of forests, in humid places, in mosses. Prefers acidic soils. Forms mycorrhiza with trees of different species. Distributed in Western and Central Europe. On the territory of Russia, it is found in the European part, in the Southern Urals and in Eastern Siberia.

Recognizable cobweb (Cortinarius sodagnitus).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: September October

Growth: singly or in small groups

Description:

The cap is first convex, then almost flat, sticky, bright purple.

The flesh is white in the cap, lilac in the stem. The plates are adherent to the teeth, frequent, bright purple, later purple-brown.

At the base of the peduncle there is a well-defined nodule. The fibrous cover of young fruiting bodies is pale violet.

Ecology and distribution:

It is found in deciduous forests on calcareous soils, forms mycorrhiza with beech, hornbeam, linden, oak. Rare view. In Russia, it was found in the Penza region and in the Western Caucasus (Krasnodar Territory).

Shiny webcap (Cortinarius splendens).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: Aug. Sept

Growth: singly or in small groups

Description:

The pulp is lemon-yellow or sulfur-yellow in color, sometimes with a bready smell.

The cap of young mushrooms is hemispherical, then opens and becomes convex, covered with mucus.

The stem is yellow. In the central part, the cap is fibrous-scaly, the color is sulfur-yellow or chrome-yellow. The lower part of the stem is pubescent, bulbous thickening. The plates with a notch adherent to the stem are yellow in young mushrooms, then acquire a flaxy tint.

Deadly poisonous mushroom. Probably contains the toxin orellanin.

Ecology and distribution:

Found in pine and mixed forests. Distributed in Europe. Found on the territory of Russia in the Penza region.

Yellow webcap (Cortinarius triumphans).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: early August - late September

Growth: in groups and singly

Description:

The cap is flat-convex, sticky in wet weather, yellow, ocher-red in the center.

The leg is pale yellow, thickened towards the base.

The flesh is whitish with a pleasant odor. The cap of young mushrooms is hemispherical, sometimes flattened in the center. On the stem there are torn scaly red bands. The plates are adherent toothed, frequent, wide, lavender, then clay-colored.

The most delicious of the cobwebs, it is used fresh in main courses (after boiling), salted, pickled and dried.

Ecology and distribution:

It is found in deciduous (with birch, oak), mixed and coniferous (spruce-birch, in pine plantations) forests, in bright places, in grass and on litter.

Purple webcap (Cortinarius violaceus).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: mid-August - end of September

Growth: in groups and singly

Description:

The cap is first convex, then prostrate, tomentose-scaly, dark purple.

The flesh is whitish, bluish, violet or grayish-violet.

Stem, fibrous, brownish or dark purple, covered with small scales in the upper part. Plates adherent to the tooth, wide, sparse, dark purple in color. Tuberous thickening at the base of the stem.

Medium quality edible mushroom, used fresh after boiling for 20 minutes, salted.

Ecology and distribution:

It is found in deciduous and coniferous (with pine) forests, in pine forests, in humid places. Rare view. Listed in the Red Book of Russia.

Cylindrical vole (Agrocybe cylindracea).

Family: Bolbitiaceae

Season: spring - late autumn

Growth: numerous groups

Description:

The cap of this lamellar fungus is hemispherical at first, then from convex to flat, with a slightly pronounced tubercle; the color is white, ocher, later brownish. The skin is smooth, dry, covered with a network of cracks.

Stem cylindrical, silky, densely pubescent above the ring.

The flesh is fleshy, white or slightly brownish, with a wine smell. The ring is well developed, white, brown when ripe, set high. The plates are thin and wide, narrowly accrete, at the beginning light, later brown.

Edible mushroom, widely consumed in southern Europe, cultivated.

Ecology and distribution:

Grows on living and dead deciduous trees. Widely distributed in the subtropics and in the south of the northern temperate zone.

Early scaly (Agrocybe praecox).

Family: Bolbitiaceae

Season: late May - mid June

Growth: in groups

Description:

The cap is convex and convex with a wide tubercle, whitish or yellowish. The cap of young mushrooms is hemispherical with a membranous veil.

The peduncle is hollow, fibrous brownish below the annulus. The plates are frequent, adherent to the teeth, whitish. The annulus is membranous, hanging.

The pulp is white, brownish at the base of the leg, with a mushroom odor.

Conditionally edible mushroom, used fresh in main courses (after boiling), can be pickled.

Ecology and distribution:

It is found on the edge of the forest, in parks, vegetable gardens, near roads, in bushes, in grass, on humus soil.

Galerina marginata.

Family: Hymenogastric (Hymenogastracea)

Season: mid June - October

Growth: in small groups and singly

Description:

The plates are broadly accreted, yellowish. The leg is hard, hollow, light, yellowish above, yellowish-ocher below the ring.

The cap is convex, with a wide obtuse tubercle and a thin edge, smooth, ocher-red when wet, yellow when dry.

The flesh is watery, reddish. The ring is curved, dark ocher. The cap of young mushrooms is bell-shaped, covered with a fibrous-membrane blanket below.

The fungus is poisonous, contains amatoxins that damage the liver.

Ecology and distribution:

It is found on mossy decaying wood of coniferous and deciduous species, in humid places, near swamps.Widespread in the northern hemisphere.

Ring cap (Rozites caperatus).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: early July - early October

Growth: usually in small groups

Description:

The cap is fleshy, cap-shaped, straightens as it grows, the color is from gray-yellow to ocher.

The pulp is loose, white, later yellowing, with a pleasant smell and taste.

The stem is strong, thickened at the base, solid, silky. Silky fibers on the cap are the remnants of a blanket. In dry weather, the edges of the cap often crack. A thin film ring of an irregular shape tightly fits the stem. The plates are relatively sparse, adherent, of different lengths.

Delicious edible mushroom, can be cooked in any way.

Ecology and distribution: Forms mycorrhiza mainly with conifers. Grows in mossy places in coniferous and mixed forests, especially in bilberry, less often in oak forests. In Russia, it is distributed in the western and central regions of the European part.

Psathyrella candolleana.

Family: Psathyrellaceae

Season: mid June - mid October

Growth: in groups, bundles

Description:

The brim of hats often cracks. The cap is hemispherical, then bell-shaped or broadly conical. When ripe, the cap opens to a flat, with a rounded tubercle.

The pulp is white, fragile, without a special taste and smell. The fibrous remains of the coverlet are noticeable in young mushrooms along the edges of the cap. The plates are adherent, frequent, narrow, when ripe they change color from whitish to dark brown.

Stem with a thickened base, hollow, white or cream.

Information about the edibility of this fungus, which belongs to the plate, is contradictory; collecting is not recommended.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows on soil and decaying deciduous wood, on stumps, in bushes, along paths and roads, rarely on living trees.

Shoe row (Tricholoma caligatum).

Family: Ordinary (Tricholomataceae)

Season: Aug. Sept

Growth: singly or in small groups

Description:

The cap is hemispherical, then convexly outstretched. Remains of a felt blanket along the edge of the cap. The plates are frequent, with plates.

The leg above the ring is smooth, white; the surface of the cap is woolly-fibrous; the leg is felt-fibrous or scaly.

The pulp is white, firm, fragile in the cap. The taste is fresh, floury, the smell is rare-fruity.

The mushroom is edible; it is considered a delicacy in China and Japan. Used in oriental medicine.

Ecology and distribution:

Forms mycorrhiza with pine. Grows in pine forests on sandy loam soils. Rare view. In Russia, it is found in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Far East.

Matsutake (Tricholoma magnivelare).

Family: Ordinary (Tricholomataceae)

Season: late summer - autumn

Growth: forms a ring colony

Description:

The cap is white in young specimens, yellow or orange-brownish in mature ones.

The pulp is white, fleshy, with a delicate aroma.

The stem is dense, fleshy white. In a ripe mushroom, the cap cracks along the edge. The plates are frequent, adherent, white turn brown with age. The remains of the bedspread form a massive ring.

Especially appreciated in Japanese and Chinese cuisines for its specific pine aroma and exquisite taste.

Ecology and distribution:

Forms mycorrhiza with pine or fir. It grows at the foot of trees, hiding under fallen leaves. Prefers dry, barren soil. Found in Asia, Northern Europe, North America.

Hebeloma tapered (Hebeloma radicosum).

Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)

Season: July - October

Growth: singly or in small groups

Description:

The skin is from almost white to clay-brown or light brick in color, shiny. The surface is covered with brown scales. The plates are loose or notched, adherent, frequent, convex or pale convex.

The stem is pale gray or pale brown. The bottom of the stem is fusiform thickening. The long tapered part of the stem is immersed in the substrate.

The cap is hemispherical with curled edges, then flat-convex. The ring is filmy, located under the very plates.

The pulp is fleshy, dense, with the smell of bitter almonds.

Inedible due to bitter taste.

Ecology and distribution:

Forms mycorrhiza with deciduous trees, especially oak. It is found in deciduous forests on well-drained calcareous soils, along paths, often develops on old stumps and wood debris, in mouse holes.

Honey fungus (Hypholoma capnoides).

Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)

Season: mid-August - end of October

Growth: in groups and bunch, colonies

Description:

The cap is convex, then prostrate, color from yellow to brownish.

The leg is hollow, without a ring, sometimes with remnants of a private veil, yellowish, rusty-brown at the bottom.

The pulp is white or with a pleasant odor. The plates of young mushrooms are whitish or yellowish, then bluish-gray.

A good edible mushroom, after boiling it is used in soups and main courses, salted, pickled and dried.

Ecology and distribution: It is found in coniferous forests on decaying pine or spruce wood, on stumps, on roots and around them, on dead wood.

False foam sulfur-yellow (Hypholoma fasciculare).

Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)

Season: end of May - end of October

Growth: in groups and bunch, colonies

Description:

The cap is convex, then half-spread, yellow, in the center with a reddish tint.

The pulp is sulfur-yellow, bitter, with an unpleasant odor. The plates are adherent, sulfur-yellow, then greenish-olive.

The leg is hollow, often curved, yellow.

Weakly poisonous mushroom, causes intestinal upset.

Ecology and distribution:

It is found in deciduous and coniferous forests on decaying deciduous wood (birch, oak) and, less often, coniferous trees (pine, spruce), on stumps, near them, on dead wood.

Summer honey fungus (Kuehneromyces mutabilis).

Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)

Season: end of May - end of October

Growth: group-beam, colony

Description:

The cap of young mushrooms is convex.

The leg is dense; in the upper part it is lighter than the cap, smooth. The skin is smooth, slimy. The ring is filmy, narrow, well noticeable in young mushrooms. Below the ring on the leg, small dark scales appear. As the fungus ages, the cap becomes flat, with a well-pronounced wide tubercle. The ring is often colored ocher-brown by fallen spores.

The plates are adherent or descending, relatively initially light brown brownish brown. The flesh is watery, pale yellow-brown in color, with a mild taste and pleasant smell of fresh wood. The edges of the cap have noticeable grooves. With age, the ring may disappear. The cap is often lighter in the middle and darker at the edges. In the leg, the flesh is darker. In rainy weather, the cap is translucent, brownish, in dry weather it is matte, honey-yellow.

Delicious edible mushroom, used fresh (after boiling for 5 minutes) in soups and main courses, can be salted, dried and pickled. You only need to collect the hats. Legs are edible in young, unopened mushrooms; later they become tough. In dry weather, honey mushrooms often become wormy starting from the leg.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows in deciduous and mixed, less often coniferous, forests on decaying deciduous wood (usually birch), on damaged living trees, rarely on spruce wood, on stumps and around them, in gardens, parks, on wooden buildings. In some European countries and in Japan it is cultivated on an industrial scale.

Similar species.

Summer honey fungus can be confused with a dangerous poisonous mushroom bordered gallery (Galerina marginata). Gallerinae differ in slightly smaller size and fibrous surface of the lower part of the stem. Inedible or weakly poisonous false mushrooms of the genus Hypholoma (Hypholoma) do not have a ring on the leg.

See how the lamellar mushrooms look in the photo, the names of which are given above:

Scale golden (Pholiota aurivella).

Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)

Season: end of July - mid-October

Growth: in large groups, often for several years in one place

Description:

The cap of young mushrooms is hemispherical with curved edges, golden yellow or rusty yellow. The cap of mature mushrooms is flat-rounded, sometimes with a tubercle in the center.

The flesh of young mushrooms is white, yellowish in mature ones. In wet weather, the cap is sticky; the cap is covered with sparse brown scales.

The stem is yellow, covered with dark brown scales. The ring disappears in mature mushrooms. The plates are adherent to the stem with a tooth, at first yellow, then rusty-brown.

Conditionally edible mushroom. After boiling, it is consumed fresh, salted and pickled. The legs of mature mushrooms are inedible.

Ecology and distribution:

They grow on dead and living deciduous wood (aspen, birch, willow).

Alder scale (Pholiota alnicola).

Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)

Season: mid-August - end of September

Growth: groups and colonies

Description:

The cap of young mushrooms is convex.

The pulp is yellowish, with an unpleasant odor and a bitter taste. The plates are adherent, yellowish, rusty-brown when ripe.

On the stem there is a narrow brown ring or its remains. The cap of mature mushrooms is open, with a tubercle in the center, yellow or reddish, sticky. The stem under the ring is rusty-brown, fibrous. On the cap are visible rare brownish scales.

Ecology and distribution:

They grow in deciduous forests, at the base of deciduous trees (birch, alder, willow), on stumps and near them, in the grass.

Scale yellow-greenish (Pholiota gummosa).

Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)

Season: mid-August - mid-October

Growth: in groups

Description:

The pulp is yellowish, odorless and tasteless.

The cap is hemispherical, later prostrate, with a tubercle in the center.

The stem is curved, dense, at the base of a rusty color. The plates are adherent to the stem, frequent, creamy mucous, sticky, light yellow, sometimes with a greenish tinge, finely scaly. The surface of the cap is mucous, sticky, light yellow, sometimes with a greenish tinge, finely scaly.

Conditionally edible mushroom. After boiling, it is consumed fresh and pickled.

Ecology and distribution:

They grow on stumps of deciduous trees and around them, in the grass.

Here you can see photos of lamellar edible and poisonous mushrooms, the names and descriptions of which are presented in this article:

Carbon-loving flake (Pholiota highlandensis).

Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)

Season: mid June - November

Growth: in groups

Description:

The plates are narrowly accrete, frequent, light, later olive-brown. The cap is convex, then convex, with a wide truncated tubercle.

The flesh is yellowish-brown with a slight unpleasant odor. The fibrous flakes of the veil are visible in young mushrooms at the edge of the cap.

The leg is covered with small red-brown scales in the lower part. The skin is ocher-brown, slightly sticky, with small radial scales.

It has no culinary value, but after boiling it can be used fresh in main courses and pickled.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows in abandoned fireplaces in open, lighted places. Distributed in the northern temperate zone.

Sticky scales (Pholiota lenta).

Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)

Season: end of August - November

Growth: in groups

Description:

The hat is first convex, then open, sticky, creamy.

The flesh is dense, yellowish, with a pungent odor. The flesh in the leg is watery. The plates are frequent, adherent, creamy. Below the rings on the leg are light pressed scales.

The stem is dense, with fibrous remains of the ring.

Poor quality edible mushroom. After boiling, it can be used fresh in main courses, salted and pickled. It is better to collect some hats.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows near conifers (spruce, pine), near rotting wood, in bushes, in moss.

Common scaly (Pholiota squarrosa).

Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)

Season: mid-July - early October

Growth: in groups-bunches, colonies

Description:

The cap is covered with numerous brown pointed scales. The plates are adherent, frequent, yellow-olive. The cap is buffy, pale yellow along the edge, in young mushrooms it is rounded or hemispherical.

A leg with a ring-shaped scaly band in the upper part.

The pulp is dense, yellowish or brownish. Below the girdle, the leg is densely covered with brown scales.

Conditionally edible mushroom. Best used in pickles and pickles.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows on dead and living wood, around trunks, on the roots of deciduous (birch, aspen) and less often coniferous (spruce) trees, on stumps and around them.

Stropharia coronilla.

Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)

Season: June - September

Growth: scattered or in small groups, singly or 2-3 in a joint

Description:

The hat is hemispherical, smooth, lemon yellow.

The flesh is whitish, dense, fleshy, the taste and smell are pleasant. The ring is narrow, dense, striped.

Stem is even, sometimes thickened below, white. Plates adhered to the stem with a tooth, lilac-gray, then brownish-black.

Information on edibility is contradictory; eating is not recommended.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows in grass in meadows, in fields, in gardens and parks, in pastures, less often in forests. Prefers sandy or manured soils.

Ringworm (Stropharia rugoso-annulata).

Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)

Season: June - October

Growth: in groups

Description:

The ring is membranous, whitish. The plates in youth are gray-purple, in old age are brown-violet, frequent, adherent to the stem. The flesh is dense, white, tender.

The hat in old age is open, yellow or reddish-brown. The hat in youth is hemispherical, closed. The edge of the cap is initially rolled up, with the remains of a veil.

The leg is thick, hard, smooth, whitish, later brownish, with a ribbed ring, hollow in old age.

The mushroom can be fried, boiled, stewed, used for salads and canning.

Ecology and distribution:

Grows on well-fertilized soil, plant debris, usually outside the forest, but occasionally in deciduous forests. In Russia, it is found in the Far East. Grown in an industrial way.

Hemispherical stropharia (Stropharia semiglobata).

Family: Strophariaceae (Strophariaceae)

Season: Aug. Sept

Growth: in small groups, rarely singly

Description:

The cap at a young age is hemispherical, then convex, sometimes flat, smooth, light yellow or yellow-brown

The flesh is whitish or yellowish. The edge of the cap is sometimes covered with whitish remnants of the veil. The plates adherent to the stem, grayish at a young age, dark purple-brown when ripe.

The stem is straight or slightly thickened at the base.

Information on edibility is contradictory.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows on horse and cow manure or on fertilized soil. Appears after rains.

Autumn honey agaric (Armillaria mellea).

Family: Physalacriaceae

Season: August - October

Growth: in groups

Description:

The flesh of the leg is fibrous, tough, with a white ring in the upper part of the leg.

The cap of young mushrooms is spherical, then flat-convex with a tubercle in the center, yellow-brown, with small brown scales. The flesh is dense, white, with a pleasant smell and sour taste. The plates are slightly descending, frequent, at first white-yellowish, then light brown.

The leg is light above, brown below.

Nice edible mushroom. Boiling is necessary before use.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows on both dead and living trees. Prefers hardwood, especially birch. During the season, there are one or two "waves" when honey mushrooms are found in huge quantities.

Herbal scales (Phaeolepiota aurea).

Family: Champignon (Agaricaceae)

Season: August - October

Growth: usually in groups

Description:

The pulp is fleshy, white or yellowish. The plates are frequent, thin, adherent, yellowish.

The stem is widened towards the base or swollen in the middle, one-color with a cap. The cap of mature mushrooms is convex-prostrate, ocher-yellow.

The cap of young mushrooms is hemispherical or conical, with a dense gray-ocher private veil. The ring is bent, wide, filmy.

This lamellar mushroom with white flesh has long been considered edible and tasty, but recent research has revealed traces of hydrocyanic acid in it.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows in rare deciduous and coniferous forests, in clearings and open places, on the sides of roads and glades, in grass, nettles, in bushes, on rich soil.

These photos illustrate the description of lamellar mushrooms:

Star-spore fiber (Inocybe asterospora).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: June - October

Growth: sometimes in large groups

Description of the lamellar fungus filamentous stellate-spore:

The cap of young mushrooms is bell-shaped. The cap of mature mushrooms is wide-spread, radial-fibrous, often with a lobed edge, brown.

The pulp or pale yellow, with a strong spermatic odor and unpleasant taste. The plates are adherent, frequent, wide, dirty-brownish, sometimes with an olive tint, with a flaky-pubescent edge.

The leg is clavate, solid, longitudinally fibrous, brownish.

A deadly poisonous lamellar mushroom, contains the toxin muscarine.

Ecology and distribution:

Grows in deciduous and mixed forests, in moss, on litter.

Fiber Patuyara (Inocybe erubescens).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: May - October

Growth: singly and in small groups

Description:

The cap is usually reddish, bell-shaped at first, straightens over time. The edges of the cap have deep radial cracks, especially in old mushrooms. The skin is smooth, with a silky sheen.

The pulp is white, if damaged it turns red, with a peppery taste.

The stem is the same color as the cap, strong, slightly thickened at the base, with longitudinal grooves. The plates are very frequent, not wide, pink, then brown, white at the edges and covered with fluff.

A deadly poisonous mushroom containing the toxin muscarine.

Ecology and distribution:

Grows in deciduous, coniferous, mixed forests, parks, gardens, usually on calcareous and clay soils. Forms mycorrhiza with beech, linden.

Earthen fiber (Inocybe geophylla).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: mid-July - mid-September

Growth: singly and in small groups

Description:

The cap is convex, prostrate with a sharp tubercle, shiny, at first whitish, then cream or ocher. The cap of young mushrooms is conical. The plates are frequent, wide, almost free, grayish-yellowish, then yellowish-brown.

The leg is solid, then hollow, whitish, then brownish.

The flesh is whitish, with a slight unpleasant odor.

This type of lamellar mushroom is deadly poisonous and contains the toxin muscarine.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows in coniferous, coniferous deciduous and deciduous forests, on forest edges, in parks, in shrubs, in grass.

Torn fiber (Inocybe lacera).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: July - September

Growth: singly and in small groups

Description:

The cap is half-spread, bell-shaped, with a tubercle in the center, fine-scaled, yellow-brown. The edge of the cap is white, flaky.

The flesh of the cap is white, the taste is first sweet, then bitter.

The peduncle is dense, brown, with fibrous scales. The plates are wide, adherent to the pedicle, brownish brown with a white margin.

A deadly poisonous mushroom containing the toxin muscarine.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows in damp places, along the edges of roads and ditches. Prefers sandy soils, mountains, coniferous and deciduous forests.

Fractured fiber (Inocybe rimosa).

Family: Spiderwebs (Cortinariaceae)

Season: mid-July - mid-September

Growth: singly and in small groups

Description:

The cap of young mushrooms is conical, bell-shaped, the color varies from whitish to brownish-yellow. The cap of mature mushrooms is broadly bell-shaped, spread with a sharp tubercle, cracked, with translucent pulp. The plates of this mushroom are frequent, wide, almost free.

The flesh is whitish, brownish in the stem, sometimes with an unpleasant odor.

The leg is deeply embedded in the litter, fibrous, often twisted.

A deadly poisonous mushroom containing the toxin muscarine.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows in deciduous and coniferous forests, along the edges, in the grass.

Psathyrella velutina.

Family: Psathyrellaceae

Season: mid-July - October

Growth: singly and in groups

Description:

The cap is reddish-brown, tomentose-scaled with a tubercle; the edge of the cap is with a fibrous edge.

The leg is fibrous-scaly, hollow, with ring-shaped remains of the bedspread.

The pulp is faded brown, crumbly, with a spicy smell. The plates are brownish in youth, then purple-black, curved, notched-adherent, with whitish droplets of liquid.

Most sources classify the mushroom as conditionally edible. Used fresh after boiling.

Ecology and distribution:

Grows in deciduous and mixed forests, in open places, on soil and rotten wood, in grass, along roadsides, near forest roads.

Meadow honey fungus (Marasmius oreades).

Family: Non-flail (Marasmiaceae)

Season: end of May - end of October

Growth: copious, often in rows, arcs and "witch circles"

Description:

The cap is first cone-shaped, then convex, outstretched, dull-lumpy, light brown in wet weather, in dry weather it fades to pale cream.

The pulp is pale yellowish, with a pleasant pungent odor. The plates are sparse, wide, adherent, then almost free, light.

The stem is even, fibrous, dense, solid, one-color with a cap. The edge of the cap is uneven, serrated.

Delicious edible mushroom. Only hats are used as the legs are very stiff. Suitable for all types of processing.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows in open grassy areas - meadows, pastures, vegetable gardens, orchards, along the edges of fields, on roadsides, on forest edges and clearings.

Conical fragile (Psathyrella conopilus).

Family: Psathyrellaceae

Season: spring-autumn

Growth: singly and in groups

Description:

The cap is conical in shape, furrowed. The skin is smooth, dark brown-brown in color, when it dries, it becomes ocher-yellow.

The stem is white, hollow, fragile. The plates are adherent, frequent, brittle, from gray to black with a white edge.

The pulp is brown, very thin, with a mild taste.

Has no nutritional value. Ecology and distribution:

It grows in deciduous forests, on moist soils, in parks, gardens, on nitrogen-rich soils, on lawns, on branches or wood waste, on leaf litter, on manured soils. In Russia, it is found in the European part, in the Caucasus, in the Far East.

Common lacquer (Laccaria laccata).

Family: Ordinary (Tricholomataceae)

Season: mid-July - October

Growth: in groups

Description:

The cap is convex, pink-fleshy or yellow-reddish in color. The cap of mature mushrooms is discolored, prostrate with an uneven cracked edge. The plates are adherent or weakly descending, thick, wide, waxy. The center of the cap has a depression.

The pulp is watery, odorless.

The leg is even, of the same color as the cap, translucent.

The mushroom is edible, used fresh after boiling.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows in light deciduous and mixed forests, on forest edges, in meadows, in parks and gardens, in shrubs. Avoids excessively damp, dry and dark places.

Macrocystidia cucumber (Macrocystidia cucumis).

Family: Ordinary (Tricholomataceae)

Season: end of June - mid-October

Growth: in groups

Description:

The hat is broadly bell-shaped, with a tubercle.

The leg is cylindrical or flattened velvety, brown.

The flesh is dense, dark yellow, with a sour herring smell. The plates are low-lying, with a belly, pinkish. The edge of the cap is with a pale ochreous border. The surface of the cap is chestnut-brown, smooth.

Ecology and distribution:

Grows in coniferous (spruce) and mixed forests (with birch), at the edge of the forest, floodplain meadows, parks, gardens, on soil, mossy vale, plant debris, manure.

Entoloma is beautiful (Entoloma nitidum).

Family: Entolomaceae (Entolomataceae)

Season: mid-July - end of September

Growth: small groups

Description:

The plates are quite frequent, whitish, then turn pink.

The pulp is whitish, dense, with a weak sparse or flour.

A cap with a noticeable tubercle in the center, gray-blue, shiny.

The leg is smooth, shiny, lined longitudinally, of the same color as the cap.

Ecology and distribution:

It grows in mixed (with pine, spruce, birch) and coniferous forests, in moss, in humid places. Prefers acidic soils. It is widespread in Europe, but rather rare.

Row purple (Lepista nuda).

Family: Ordinary

Season: end of August - December

Growth: in groups, rows and rings

Description:

The stem is slightly thickened towards the base, solid in young mushrooms, later with cavities.

The cap is fleshy, in young mushrooms it is hemispherical, bright purple, later convex-prostrate or depressed, brownish.

The pulp is dense, light purple, later - softer, ocher-cream, with a faint smell of anise. The plates are frequent, thin, adherent to a tooth or almost free, purple.

Conditionally edible mushroom, used after boiling for 20 minutes fresh (fried, stewed), salted and pickled (young resilient mushrooms).

Ecology and distribution:

It grows on rotting leaf litter, on the soil, near brushwood heaps, on fallen needles, in coniferous and mixed forests, in gardens, on compost heaps. It tolerates small frosts well.

And in conclusion - another selection of photos of edible and inedible lamellar mushrooms: