Local Name
Bilts’a sok’o (1).
Description
Cap: The cap is 5–10 cm across, convex to broadly convex or nearly flat in age, sticky when fresh, adorned with soft, grayish to whitish, brownish, or purplish patches or warts when young, bald, pale greenish yellow, fading quickly to nearly white. Gills are free from the stem, close or crowded, short-gills frequent, creamy or sometimes yellowish in age. Stem: The stem is 5–12 cm tall, 1–2 cm thick, more or less equal, but with an abruptly bulbous base, the base sometimes longitudinally “chiseled” or split, with a with a fairly persistent, skirtlike, white or pale yellow ring, bald or finely hairy, whitish, sometimes discoloring purple to brownish. Flesh: The flesh is white throughout, unchanging when sliced, taste unpleasant, smelling strongly of raw potatoes. Spores: The spores are 6 X 9 µm, elliptical, smooth, brownish.
Habitat: On soils, in grass and in cultivated areas. Season: Summer, autumn.
Distribution: All regions of Georgia (2).
Uses
Edibility: Poisonous. The symptoms are severe stomach cramps (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).