🇬🇧 St. George's mushroom - 🇩🇪 Maipilz - 🇪🇪 Kevad-võluheinik

🇬🇧 St. George's mushroom - 🇩🇪 Maipilz - 🇪🇪 Kevad-võluheinik - 🇷🇺 Калоцибе майская 6/4/22—5/30/26

🆔 Calocybe gambosa (Fr.) Donk
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills, white to cream-colored, crowded
ℹ️ Cap: convex to flat with age, smooth surface, color ranging from white to yellowish or pale ochre, margin often inrolled when young
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Sinuate (notched)
ℹ️ Stipe: Stout, white to yellowish, sometimes slightly bulbous at the base, surface smooth, lacking a ring
⚪ Spore print white
🍃🌳 Ecology saprotrophic, occasionally mycorrhizal, grasslands, meadows, roadside verges, woodlands, calcareous soils, fairy rings, may till june
🍳 Choice edible, highly prized in various European cuisines, traditionally consumed sautéed or in omelettes
📏 Fruit body medium to large, stipe 3–10 cm long and 1–4 cm thick
📐 Cap 3–15 cm in diameter
🧪 No significant color change observed
👃 Distinctive mealy, cucumber-like smell
👅 Mild and mealy
🔬 Spores ellipsoid, smooth, measuring 4–7 × 2–3.5 µm, inamyloid
🔤 Fruits in spring, often around St. George's Day (April 23), hence the common name St. George's Mushroom