Local Name
Bebera sok’o (1).
Description
Cap: The cap is 5–15 cm, cinnamon to fulvous with yellow or olivaceous tinge, downy and soon conspicuously cracked, margin slightly overhanging tubes. Stem: The stem is 5–12 cm long, 1–3 cm thick, equal, lemon-yellow at apex, covered in yellow scales which become buff to cinnamon and finally mouse-grey, darkening on handling. Flesh: The flesh is pale yellow then rapidly brick-colour, vinaceous or greyish and finally black throughout. Spores: The spores are 11–18 X 4–6 µm, ellipsoid-subfusiform, ochre with olive flush.
Habitat: On soils, in leafy forests, often on the beech. Season: Summer, autumn.
Distribution: All regions of Georgia (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).