Hygrophorus pudorinus

Hygrophorus pudorinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hygrophoraceae
Genus: Hygrophorus
Species: H. pudorinus
Binomial name
Hygrophorus pudorinus
(Fr.) Fr., 1838
Synonyms

Agaricus pudorinus Fr. Limacium eburneum var. pudorinum (Fr.) P. Kumm.

Hygrophorus pudorinus, commonly known as the blushing- or turpentine waxycap, is a species of fungus in the genus Hygrophorus.[1]

Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries described it as Agaricus pudorinus in his 1821 work Systema Mycologicum.[2] It became Hygrophorus pudorinus with the raising of Hygrophorus to genus rank. The species name is the Latin word pudorinus "blushing".[3] Common names include blushing waxycap,[4] and turpentine waxycap.[5]

The species is classified in the subsection Pudorini of genus Hygrophorus, along with the closely related species H. erubescens and H. purpurascens.[6]

The fruit body (mushroom) is a fair size, with a 5–12 cm (2–4 3⁄4 in) diameter pink to golden convex cap with a downrolled margin that is lighter in colour. The cap surface is sticky. The pink- to yellow-white gills are decurrent. The thick stipe is 4–9 cm (1 5⁄8–3 1⁄2 in) tall and 1–2 cm (3⁄8–3⁄4 in) wide. The spore print is white and the oval spores measure 7–10 x 5–6 micrometres. The thick flesh is pale pink or orange to white. The mushroom does not bruise red and has no distinctive odour, though can taste like turpentine.[4]

Hygrophorus pudorinus is found in coniferous woodlands under fir and spruce trees[7] across western and northeastern North America,[4] particularly common in Canada,[7] and the Rocky Mountains.[3] The mushrooms appear in groups or fairy rings in late summer and autumn.[4] They often grow in boggy places in sphagnum moss.[5]

Despite its taste, it is edible after cooking.[7] Its variable appearance make identification difficult and hence raises risk of misidentification.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Hygrophorus pudorinus (Fr.) Fr.". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  2. ↑ Fries EM. (1821). Systema Mycologicum (in Latin) 1. Lund: Ex Officina Berlingiana. p. 33.
  3. 1 2 Evenson VS. (1997). Mushrooms of Colorado and the Southern Rocky Mountains. Westcliffe Publishers. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-56579-192-3.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 McKnight KH, Peterson RT, McKnight VB. (1998). A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 209. ISBN 9780395910900.
  5. 1 2 Bessette A, Bessette AR, Fischer DW. (1997). Mushrooms of Northeastern North America. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-8156-0388-7.
  6. ↑ Lodge DJ; et al. (2014). "Molecular phylogeny, morphology, pigment chemistry and ecology in Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales)". Fungal Diversity 64 (1): 1–99 (see p. 64). doi:10.1007/s13225-013-0259-0.
  7. 1 2 3 States J (1990). Mushrooms and Truffles of the Southwest. University of Arizona Press. p. 66. ISBN 9780816511921.
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