I have loved mushrooms since childhood, and I have also been a programmer for a long time. Combining these two hobbies, I wrote this website. Previously, I had two other mushroom identification sites, which I sold. Only one of them remains accessible today. My goal with the current site is to create an easy-to-use search and identification platform that works great both in the field and at home. I hope it brings joy to others.
Bartha László
Species flashcards
Practice area: created for the 303-species Hungarian mushroom inspector requirement. It is not an official examination; requirements in other countries may differ.
Black-capped Scaber Stalk
Leccinum pseudoscabrum
edible marketable
- Habitat: deciduous
- Fruiting season: June – October
- Cap: hemispherical flat cracked wrinkled smooth
- Stem: cylindrical club-shaped
- Fertile layer: curved narrow
Description
Cap: 3-12 cm in diameter; hemispherical or convex, finally flattening, grayish-brown, becoming more or less black with age; surface smooth or slightly wrinkled, often cracking in dry weather, sticky when wet.
Tube layer: Curved before the stem, thus forming a groove around the stem, narrow-pored; whitish, then yellowish-gray, turning gray, blackening on pressure.
Stem: 5-10 cm long, 1-3 cm thick; elongated, cylindrical or club-shaped; dirty whitish, yellowish-gray base often with fine, blackish dots, granules, scales arranged in longitudinal rows.
Flesh: Quickly softening in the cap, hardening in the stem; fibrous, reddening when cut, then purplish-gray, finally blackening; smell, taste not characteristic.
Spore: Ochre-brown; 13-18.5 x 4-6μm; conical spindle-shaped, smooth, thin-walled.
Occurrence: From June to October, growing under hornbeam, common mushroom.
Edibility: Edible, marketable, but only tasty when young.
Confusion: Similar to the edible aspen bolete.
Note: Leccinum is an old Italian word meaning mushroom. carpini is Latin for hornbeam. pseudoscabrum is a compound word, from pseudo - false, and scabrum suffix - dirty, rough, warty - referring to the scaly, powdery surface of the mushroom stem.
Species description: In 1935, the German Franz Joseph Kallenbach (1893-1944) mycologist described it and named it Boletus pseudoscaber. In 1989, the Czech Josef Šutara (b. 1943) placed it in the Leccinum genus under the name Leccinum pseudoscabrum.
Taxonomy
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderBoletales
- FamilyBoletaceae
- GenusLeccinum
- Species: pseudoscabrum
- Described by: (Kallenb.) Šutara
- Hungarian name: sötét érdestinóru
- Lifestyle: mycorrhizal
- Edibility: edible
