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.
Dark-footed Hebeloma
Hebeloma mesophaeum
not edible
- Habitat: deciduous coniferous
- Fruiting season: May – November
- Cap: hemispherical umbonate smooth
- Stem: cylindrical
- Fertile layer: adnate dense smooth
Description
Cap: 2-6 cm in diameter; hemispherical when young, later convex, then spreading, often slightly umbonate; its center chocolate-brown, reddish-brown, lighter brown, ochre or skin-colored towards the margin; surface slightly sticky; its margin is covered with whitish or pale brownish veil remnants.
Gills: Adnate, densely standing; initially dull, cream-colored, later becoming pale brownish.
Stem: 4-10 cm long, 0.6-1.5 cm thick; cylindrical, often slightly curved; whitish above, brownish downwards, its base dark brown; its apex powdery, powdery, often decorated with fibrous veil remnants downwards.
Flesh: Whitish in the cap, brown in the stem, slightly radish-smelling, bitter taste.
Spore: Brown; 8-10 x 5-6µm; elliptical, finely warty.
Occurrence: From May to November, on soils of deciduous and coniferous forests, not rare species.
Edibility: Not edible.
Confusion: Similar to the not edible sticky scalycap, wood woolly-foot and the edible spring fieldcap.
Note: The Hebeloma genus name comes from two ancient Greek words: Hebe - young, and the suffix -Loma - veil, edge. mesophaeum means dark-centered - the central part of the cap is darker than the rest.
Species description: In 1828, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon described it and gave it the scientific name Agaricus fastibilis var .mesophaeus, then ten years later, the name Agaricus mesophaeus. In 1872, the French mycologist Lucien Quélet transferred this species to the Hebeloma genus, so its currently accepted scientific name became Hebeloma mesophaeum.
Taxonomy
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderAgaricales
- FamilyStrophariaceae
- GenusHebeloma
- Species: mesophaeum
- Described by: (Pers.) Quél.
- Hungarian name: sötétlábú fakógomba
- Lifestyle: mycorrhizal
- Edibility: not edible
