Local Name
Natsara (1).
Description
Cap: The cap is 5–12 cm, quite soon depressed, irregularly funnel-shaped, slightly viscid then dry and shiny, sometimes frosted, often with fine radial wrinkles, grayish beige to buff, sometimes with greenish tints. Gills are subdecurrent, very distant, orchraceous cream then bright orange-ochre. Stem: The stem is 4–8 cm tall, 1–2 cm thick, generally cylindrical but sometimes slightly swollen at the base, often finely wrinkled to compressed, slightly shiny, concolorous or paler. Flesh: The flesh is pale cream. Milk white, drying as olivaceous cream drops on the gills, very acrid. Spores: The spores are 6–8.5 X 5–6.5 µm, nearly globose, with low warts, white, cream or yellowish.
Habitat: On soils, in mixed woodland, fairly common and is often found at the base of beech trees. Season: Summer, autumn.
Distribution: All regions of Georgia (2).
Uses
Edibility: Edible when marinated (must be boiled first) (1).
References
- Nakhutsrishvili, I.G. (2007) Fungi of Georgia. Tbilisi: Buneba Printi.
- Nakhutsrishvili, I.G., et al. (1986) Flora of Spore-producing Plants of Georgia (Summary). Tbilisi: Metsniereba (Russian).