Cobweb anomalous (Cortinarius anomalus) ata ma fa'amatalaga

Cobweb anomalous (Cortinarius anomalus)

• Azure covered curtain;
• Cortinarius azureus;
• A beautiful curtain.

The anomalous cobweb (Cortinarius anomalus) is a fungus belonging to the Cobweb (Cortinariaceae) family.

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The anomalous cobweb (Cortinarius anomalus) has a fruiting body consisting of a stem and a cap. Initially, its cap is characterized by a bulge, but in mature mushrooms it becomes flat, dry to the touch, silky and smooth. In color, the cap of the mushroom is initially grayish-brown or gray, and its edge is characterized by a bluish-violet color. Gradually, the hat becomes reddish-brown or brown.

The mushroom leg is characterized by a length of 7-10 cm and a girth of 0.5-1 cm. It is cylindrical in shape, has a thickening at the base, in young mushrooms it is filled, and in mature mushrooms it becomes empty from the inside. In color – whitish, with a brown or purple tint. On the surface of the mushroom leg, you can see the fibrous light remnants of a private bedspread.

Mushroom pulp is well developed, has a whitish color, on the stem – a slightly purple hue. It has no smell, but the taste is mild. The hymenophore is represented by plates adhering to the inner surface of the cap, characterized by a large width and frequent arrangement. Initially, the plates have a grayish-purple color, but as the fruiting bodies ripen, they become rusty-brown. They contain spores of the fungus of a wide oval shape, having dimensions of 8-10 * 6-7 microns. At the end of the spores are pointed, have a light yellow color, covered with small warts.

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The anomalous cobweb (Cortinarius anomalus) grows in small groups or singly, mainly in deciduous and coniferous forests, on a litter of leaves and needles, or in the ground. The fruiting period of the species falls on the end of August and September. In Europe, it grows in Austria, Germany, Bulgaria, Norway, Great Britain, Belgium, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Switzerland, France and Sweden. You can also see the anomalous cobweb in the United States, the Greenland Islands and Morocco. This species also grows in some regions of Our Country, in particular, in Karelia, Yaroslavl, Tver, Amur, Irkutsk, Chelyabinsk regions. There is this mushroom in the Primorsky Territory, as well as in the Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk Territories.

Edibility (danger, use)

The nutritional properties and characteristics of the species have been little studied, but scientists attribute the anomalous cobweb to the number of inedible mushrooms.

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