Local Name
Shkhama (1).
Description
Cap: The cap is 5–15 cm across, nearly round or oval at first, becoming convex, then broadly convex to flat in age, bald, sticky when wet, shiny when dry, color ranging from dull green to olive to yellowish to brownish. Gills are free from the stem or nearly so, white (sometimes with a slight greenish tint), close or crowded. Stem: The stem is 5–10 cm tall, 0.5–2 cm thick, more or less equal, or frequently tapering to apex and flaring to a swollen base, bald or finely hairy, white or with tints of the cap color; with a white, skirtlike ring that typically persists but is sometimes lost, with a sacklike white volva encasing the base. Flesh: The flesh is white or whitish, not discoloring on exposure, or odor sickly sweet becoming disagreeable. Spores: The spores are 7–12.5 X 6–8.5 µm, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, amyloid, colourless or pale white.
Habitat: On soils, in mixed coniferous and leafy forests. Season: Summer, autumn.
Distribution: Abkhazeti, Kakheti (2).
Uses
Edibility: Poisonous (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).