Pluteus salicinus
| Pluteus salicinus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Pluteaceae |
| Genus: | Pluteus |
| Species: | P. salicinus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pluteus salicinus (
Pers.) P.Kumm. (1871) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Agaricus salicinus Pers. (1798) | |
Pluteus salicinus | |
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 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is convex or flat |
 | saprotrophic |
 | Edibility is psychoactive or edible |
Pluteus salicinus is a European
psychedelic mushroom that grows on wood. It is an edible mushroom after parboiling.[2]
Taxonomy
The species was originally described by
Christian Hendrik Persoon as Agaricus salicinus in 1798.[3] Paul Kummer transferred it to the genus Pluteus in 1871.[4]
Description
- Cap: 2 — 5(8) cm in diameter, convex becoming broadly convex to plane, silver-gray to brownish-gray, often with blue or greenish tint in age, smooth, with tiny scales near the center, darker at the margin, slightly translucent-striate when moist, unlined cap margin, flesh white with a grayish tinge, thin to moderate. Cap skin fibrous.
- Gills: Crowded, broad, free, at first white, becoming pink-flesh colored; ventricose. Edges discoloring or bruising grayish.
- Stipe: 3 — 5(10) long, 0.2 — 0.6 cm thick, more or less equal or slightly swollen at the base, flesh white with grayish-green to bluish-green tones, especially near the base. Ring absent. Firm, full or stuffed.
- Taste: Unpleasant, indefinite or somewhat raphanoid (like radish).
- Odor: Unpleasant, indefinite or somewhat raphanoid.
- Spores: pink, smooth, 7 — 8.5 x 5 - 6 µm. Spore printpink-flesh colored to brown-pink.
- Microscopic features: µm; with 3 — 5 horn-like projections.
Habitat and distribution
This mushroom is widely distributed across western Europe and Siberia. It is found on hardwoods -
Quercus.[5]
It is always found growing on wood. Summer-fall, solitary or gregarious on dead wood of hardwoods, in damp forests on flood-plains.
Common name
The 'knackers crumpet' is a localised, common name referring to Pluteus salicinus. Its use is most prominent in the North of England.
Chemistry
The concentration of psilocybin and psilocin in the dried sample of P. salicinus has been reported in the range of 0.21-0.35 and 0.011-0.05%, respectively.[6][7]
See also
- List of Pluteus species
- List of Psilocybin mushrooms
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Pluteus salicinus microscopic features.
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References
- ^ "Pluteus salicinus (Pers.) P. Kumm. 1871". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
- ISSN 0556-3321.
- ^ Icones et Descriptiones Fungorum Minus Cognitorum (in Latin). Vol. 1. Leipzig, Germany: Breitkopf-Haertel. 1798. pp. 1–26.
- ^ Kummer P. (1871). Der Führer in die Pilzkunde (in German) (1 ed.). Zerbst, Germany: C. Luppe. p. 99.
- doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.180.1.1. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2016-03-04.
- PMID 17340325.
- PMID 3430170.
- Stamets, Paul (1996). Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-9610798-0-0.
External links
Media related to Pluteus salicinus at Wikimedia Commons