Spiderweb purple - exotic and rare mushroom

Spiderweb purple (in Latin - Cortinarius violaceus) is a very rare and interesting mushroom with an unusual color, due to which he received a part of his name. In the people it is called an abyssal purple. In Belarus, the fungus is called fat. Spiderweb purple is edible - its palatability is estimated as average. You can eat it in boiled, marinated, salted, fried and even fresh, although it is not often to try it. From the basin they prepare the first and second dishes. Connoisseurs very fond of this mushroom and consider it a great delicacy.

Description and morphological features

Spiderweb purple has a finely scaled cushion-convex, radial-fibrous bonnet, whose diameter can reach 15 cm. Its edges can be bent downwards or simply dropped, at maturity it becomes flat. Color of the cap is dark purple. The flesh is thick, slightly bluish, soft, with a weak aroma of cedar wood or oil. Can fade to white. Her taste is nutty. The plates are dark purple (with time a rust-brown coating appears), descending along the stem, rare. Spores of the fungus are unequal, broadly ellipsoidal, warty. Their powder has a rusty-brown hue. Leg is dark purple, dense, at the base there is a tuberiform swelling. It has traces of cobweb bands. Can grow 16 cm in length. Diameter - 1,5-2 cm. Very interesting appearance has a cobweb purple. You can see his photo in this article.

Habitat and distribution

Pribolotnik is a very rare edible fungus, growing in small groups, but more often alone. Since purple cobweb does not differ too much in yield, it was listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation. This fungus fructifies only under strictly defined conditions. This macromycete is mycorrhizal. Spiderweb violet has a symbiotic relationship with deciduous and coniferous species of trees: pine, birch, spruce, beech, oak. Therefore, it can be found in all types of forests, where they grow, although this fungus is rare. Macromycetes can also be found in moist birch forests and massifs with the presence of hornbeam. Fruiting web purple from August to October. He prefers humus, acidic soils, grows on litter of fallen leaves, on mossy soils at the edges of sphagnum marshes. Thanks to the latter macromycet and got its popular name "threshing". The fungus grows throughout the territory of the Russian Federation, in European countries, in North America, as well as in New Guinea and the islands of Borneo.

Similar species

Very interesting and exotic appearance have mushrooms spider webs. Their photos are proof of that. What is most interesting, these macromycetes are rarely similar to other varieties of cobwebs. However, there are a number of exceptions. The fungus can be confused with the cobweb spider web, which, although uneatable, is not dangerous. It occurs in the lower tiers of mountains and coniferous forests and is characterized by a strong unpleasant odor. Pribolotnik also looks a bit like a camphor spider web, which is also inedible.