Local Name
Jgupura (1).
Description
Cap: The cap is 5–10 cm, convex, becoming broadly convex or flat, moist when fresh, smooth, grayish brown to yellowish brown, often somewhat streaked in appearance. Gills: Attachment variable, attached to the stem, sometimes by a notch, or beginning to run down it, close, white, sometimes yellowing somewhat with age. Stem: The stem is 5–12 cm long, 1–2 cm thick, smooth, more or less equal, dry, whitish, sometimes becoming brownish toward the base. Flesh: The flesh is more or less firm, white or whitish, sometimes with pale gray tinge, without distinctive odor and taste. Spores: The spores are 4 X 6 µm, round or nearly so, smooth, pure white or colorless.
Habitat: On soils, in dense clusters on roadbeds, paths, on meadows, grasslands, pastures, on the edges of forests and so on. Season: Summer, autumn.
Distribution: Tetritskaro (2).
Uses
Edibility: Edible when young, fresh, dry and marinated (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).