Talita Entoloma (Entoloma cetratum) ata ma fa'amatalaga

Entoloma shield (Entoloma cetratum)

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• Rhodophyllus cetratus
• Hyporrhodius citratus

ulu 2-4 cm in diameter (up to 5.5), cone-shaped, bell-shaped or semicircular, may be flattened with age, with or without a small tubercle, at the old edge may slightly curl up. Hygrophanous, smooth, when wet, radially translucent-striped, darker towards the center. When dried, it is lighter in the center, darker towards the edge. Color when wet yellow-brown, brown. In the dried – gray, gray-brownish, with a yellowish tint in the center. There is no private cover.

Pulp hat colors. The smell and taste are not pronounced, or slightly mealy.

faamaumauga not frequent, convex, deeply and weakly adherent, or free, rather wide, with a smooth or wavy edge. At first light ocher, then with a pink tint. There are shortened plates that do not reach the stem, often more than half of all plates.

spore pauta deep pink-brown. Spores are heterodiametric, with 5-8 angles in lateral view, 9-14 x 7-10 µm.

vae 3-9 cm high, 1-3 mm in diameter, cylindrical, can be expanded towards the base, hollow, of colors and shades of the cap, distinctly silver-striped, at the bottom the stripes turn into a felt coating, under the cap itself between the plates, into a white coating, often twisted, sometimes flattened, medium-elastic, not brittle, but breaks.

Inhabits from the second half of May until the end of the mushroom season in moist coniferous (spruce, pine, larch, cedar) and forests mixed with these types of trees.

• Entoloma collected (Entoloma conferendum) has a hat of other shades – brown, red-brown, without yellow tones. It has plates from white when young to pinkish with mature spores. The rest is very similar.
• Silky entoloma (Entoloma sericeum) has a hat of other shades – dark brown, dark brown-brown, without yellow tones, silky. No radial banding when wet. The leg is also darker.

Poison mushroom.