Local Name
Rtskhilisdzira (1).
Description
Cap: The cap is 4–14 cm, broadly convex, pale gray with darker fibrils, with age slightly ochraceous, dry, tomentose-felty, sometimes slightly fibrillose-scaly. Tubes pale grayish then brownish. Pores pallid to slightly brown where bruised. Stem: The stem is 5–12 cm long, 2–4 cm thick, equal to tapered below, solid, pallid above, yellow at base and then soon overall, with strong reticulum overall, concolorous with stem then slightly brown to blackish. Flesh: The flesh is white or whitish, then darker with age, changing color to violet-bluish when bruised. Spores: The spores are 9–13 X 4–6 µm, subfusiform, yellowish.
Habitat: On soils, open deciduous woodland, especially hornbeam. 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).