Amethyst Horn (Clavulina amethystina) Foto a Beschreiwung

Amethyst horn (Clavulina amethystina)

• Clavulina amethystovaya

Fruuchtkierper:

the height of the fruiting body is from two to seven centimeters, branched from the very base, similar to a bush or coral, lilac or brownish-lilac in color. Can be with a leg or sitting. In a young mushroom, the branches are cylindrical, smooth. Then, as the fungus matures, they become covered with small wrinkles with a jagged or blunt ending.

Been:

very short or completely absent. The branches of the fruiting body fuse closer to the base and form a dense short stalk. Its color is slightly lighter than the rest of the mushroom.

Sträitfäll:

wide ellipsoid, almost spherical, smooth. Pulp: white, but when dried it becomes with a lilac tint, has no pronounced smell and taste.

Horned Amethyst is found in deciduous and coniferous-deciduous forests in small groups or singly. The fruiting period is from late August to October. Settles in spit-shaped colonies. You can collect a basket of such horned ones in a small area.

Amethyst Hornbill is a practically unknown, edible mushroom. It is used dried and boiled, but it is not recommended to fry the mushroom due to its specific taste. Delicious stewed, but you don’t need to put a lot of it, it’s better as an additive to the main mushrooms. Some sources indicate this mushroom as an inedible species, since horned mushrooms are practically not known in our country, but Czechs, Germans and Poles cook them very tasty and use them as a seasoning for soups.

Hornworms can hardly be called a mushroom, in the usual sense. They have a soft and leathery texture, sometimes cartilaginous. Coloring is special for each individual species. This is a very unusual shape, as for an edible mushroom. A slingshot can be mistaken for a plant or grass twigs. There are several varieties of hornworts, which differ in color. There are pinkish, gray, brown, yellow. The horns represent several genera at once: Clavaria, Romaria and Clavariadelphus. If you decide to collect horns, then be sure to take a separate container for them, since this mushroom is very delicate and brittle. Many looked at the Slingshot incredulously, doubting its edibility, and then with pleasure killed the dish prepared with this mushroom.