Psatirella mushroom
Category: conditionally edible.
Hat (diameter 3-7 cm): usually yellowish or light brown, with a slight tubercle and often cracked and uneven edges. It has the shape of a bell, which eventually changes to almost flat. Dry and smooth to the touch.
Leg (height 3-11 cm): slightly lighter than the cap, hollow, dense and curved, with a mealy bloom along the entire length. Slightly velvety to the touch.
Plates: light beige, over time they become rich brown. They adhere firmly to the leg.
Pulp: brownish, soft, thin, watery. No pronounced odor, the taste is very bitter.
Doubles: absent.
The psatirella water-loving mushroom grows from late August to early November in Eurasia and North America.
Other names: hydrophilic psatirella, hydrophilic fragile, spherical psatirella, watery pseudo-foam.
Where can I find: on damp stumps and the dust of dead deciduous trees.
Eating: due to low taste properties it is practically not used.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Psatirella Candolla
Category: conditionally edible.
Hat (diameter 4-10 cm): creamy or light brown, very fragile, over time it changes from a hemispherical or bell-shaped shape to almost prostrate. Young mushrooms of psatirella Candoll may have small brownish scales. The edges are wavy, covered with cracks; there is usually a small tubercle in the center.
Leg (height 4-11 cm): very smooth, usually white, occasionally brown. It has a slight thickening at the base and slight pubescence along its entire length. Like the hat, it is very fragile.
Plates: frequent and narrow, adhere tightly to the leg. Young mushrooms are light, old ones are dark brown.
Pulp: fragile, white. The subtle scent can only be felt at very close range.
Doubles: brown-gray psatirella (Psathyrella spadiceogrisea), which has a darker cap and does not grow in or near trees, but exclusively in the grass.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names: Candoll's pseudo-froth, Candoll's fragile girl.
The psatirella Candoll mushroom grows from late May to mid-October in the countries of the Eurasian continent and North America.
Where can I find: on stumps, next to or on trees. Almost always found only in deciduous forests.
Eating: practically not used, as it requires complex heat treatment.
Psathyrella conopilus
Category: inedible.
Leg (height 6-22 cm): hollow, very fragile, white.
Pulp: thin, light brown.
Plates: in young mushrooms they are gray, in old ones they are almost black.
Hat (diameter 3-8 cm): yellow, brown or brown, conical. Smooth, with fine grooves.
The usual conical shape of the cap with characteristic grooves for psatirella conical satyrella (Psathyrella conopilus)
Doubles: absent.
When it grows: from early August to mid-October in Europe and the Far East.
Psatirella conic grows on garbage or sawdust in parks, on roadsides. It can often be found in urban areas.
Eating: not used.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names: conical fragile, blackish psatirella.
