Edible mushroom volvariella, photo of beautiful and silky volvariella
Volvariella is a mushroom of the Pluteaceae genus that lives on wood waste and soil rich in humus. Due to its unsightly appearance and unexpressed taste, this mushroom is not popular. However, volvariella is edible, and may well be eaten, however, after preliminary boiling.
Below you will find information about the most common types of this mushroom - beautiful and silky volvarielle. Learn about doubles, diffusion halo and application. We also bring to your attention a photo of a silky volvariella and a mucous head.
Volvariella is beautiful (mucous head)
Category: conditionally edible.
The beautiful volvariella mushroom (mucous head) is the largest representative of its kind.
Volvariella gloiocephala hat (diameter 6-17 cm): white or grayish, rarely brownish. In young mushrooms, it has the shape of a small chicken egg, in the rest it has a bell with strongly drooping edges and a tubercle in the center. Dry and velvety to the touch, covered with sticky mucus in wet weather.
Beautiful volvariella leg (height 4-22 cm): usually grayish white or off yellow, solid, without ring.
It has the shape of a cylinder, and at the base is a tuber shape. In a young mushroom, felt to the touch, becomes smooth over time.
Plates: pinkish or light brown, frequent and wide, rounded in shape.
Pulp: white and very friable, without a pronounced odor.
Volvariella twins: gray float (Amanita vaginata) and white fly agaric. The volvariella differs from the gray float in its grayish cap and deep pink plates. And almost all fly agarics have a ring on their legs.
When it grows: from mid-July to almost the end of October in the temperate zone of the Eurasian continent and the Far East.
Where can I find: on garbage and dung heaps, rotten bark or in broken hay.
Eating: after 10-15 minutes of boiling. It is considered a conditionally edible mushroom, of no interest for cooking.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names: volvariella mucosa, volvariella mucous head, volvariella viscous cap, volvopluteus mucous head.
Mushroom volvariella silky
Category: conditionally edible.
Silky volvariella hat (Volvariella bombycina) (diameter 6-22 cm): fibrous, white or yellowish, in the form of a cone or bell, sometimes with tubercles over the entire surface. Silky to the touch.
Leg (height 6-16 cm): white, cylindrical, tapering from bottom to top. Very dense, fibrous, with a small tuber at the base.
Plates: frequent and loose, white or slightly yellowish.
Pulp: fleshy, white in young mushrooms, yellowish in old ones. No special smell at the cut or fracture site.
Volvariella silky doubles: white float (Amanitopsis alba), but it does not grow on trees.
When it grows: from early July to late September in the northern part of the Eurasian continent.
Where can I find: in deciduous forests, on weakened trees, often next to elms, lindens, aspens and poplars.
Eating: although it belongs to conditionally edible mushrooms, it can be eaten fresh or pickled.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names: volvariella bombicin.
