Melanoleuca uliuli ma paepae (Melanoleuca melaleuca)
- Vaega: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Vaevaega: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Vasega: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Vasega laiti: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Poloaiga: Agaricales (Agaric poʻo Lamellar)
- Aiga: Tricholomataceae (Tricholomovye po'o Ryadovkovye)
- Genus: Melanoleuca (Melanoleuca)
- ituaiga: Melanoleuca melaleuca (Black and white melanoleuca)
Melanoleuca black and white is an edible agaric that grows singly from late July to mid-September. Most often it can be found in open areas of mixed and deciduous forests, in gardens, parks, meadows and along roadsides.
ulu
The mushroom cap is convex, in the process of growth it gradually flattens, becoming prostrate, with a slight bulge in the middle. Its diameter is about 10 cm. The surface of the cap is smooth, matte, with a slightly pubescent edge, painted grayish-brown. In hot, dry summers, it fades to a pale brown color, retaining its original color only in the center.
faamaumauga
The plates are very frequent, narrow, expanded in the middle, adherent, first white and then beige.
Feeseeseaiga
Spore powder is white. Spores ovoid-ellipsoidal, rough.
vae
The stalk is thin, rounded, 5-7 cm long and about 0,5-1 cm in diameter, slightly widened, with a nodule or bent to the side base, dense, fibrous, longitudinally ribbed, with longitudinal black fibers-hairs, brownish-brown. Its surface is dull, dry, brownish in color, on which longitudinal black grooves are clearly visible.
Pulp
The flesh in the cap is soft, loose, elastic in the stem, fibrous, initially light gray, brown in mature mushrooms. It has a subtle spicy scent.
Places and times of collection
Melanoleuk black and white most often settles on rotting brushwood and fallen trees in forests.
In deciduous and mixed forests, parks, gardens, meadows, clearings, forest edges, in light, usually grassy places, along roadsides. Solitarily and in small groups, not often.
It is often found in the Moscow region, throughout the region from May to October.
Mea'ai
It is considered an edible mushroom, used fresh (boiling for about 15 minutes).
There are no poisonous species among representatives of the genus Melanoleuca.
It is better to collect only hats that can be boiled or fried, the legs are fibrous-rubber, inedible.
The mushroom is edible, little known. Used fresh and salty.