Local Name
Nabada (1), Nabada-sok’o (2), Nabadami (meg.) (3).
Description
Cap: The cap is 5–15 cm, depressed then funnel-shaped, brick-red zoned with paler reddish and pinkish rings, woolly and bearded, slightly viscid in the centre. Gills are adnate to subdecurrent, close, whitish to pinkish. Stem: The stem is 4–6 cm tall, 1–2 cm thick, quite firm, pruinose or sometimes scrobiculate, whitish then pinkish to beige with flesh-coloured tones. Flesh: The flesh is whitish to pinkish near the surface, acrid. Milk white, often rather scanty, acrid. Spores: The spores are 8–9 X 5–6 µm, ellipsoid or rather elongate, with low warts.
Habitat: On soils, in leafy forests, mycorrhizal with birch. Season: Summer, autumn.
Distribution: Svaneti, Khevsureti (4).
Uses
Edibility: Edible when marinated (must be boiled first) (1).
References
- Nakhutsrishvili, I.G. (2007) Fungi of Georgia. Tbilisi: Buneba Printi.
- Makashvili, A. (1991) Botanical Dictionary. Tbilisi: Metsniereba.
- Kobalia, A. (2010) Megrelian Dictionary. Tbilisi: Artanuji Publishing.
- Nakhutsrishvili, I.G., et al. (1986) Flora of Spore-producing Plants of Georgia (Summary). Tbilisi: Metsniereba (Russian).