Rovovka white, or tricholome white (Latin name - Tricholoma album), - ground agaric mushroom belonging to the family Ryadovkovye. White ryadovka perfectly "masked" by other types of mushrooms. Often amateur mushroom pickers put this representative of the mushroom kingdom in their baskets. The question of whether to deal with white tricholy, how much it is edible, and whether it makes sense to bring it home, will be discussed in this article.
Can i eat
White row - inedible view, a member of the group of poorly poisonous mushrooms. In some sources, white tricholom is completely represented as a poisonous organism. Of course, this is not poisonous tricholom, provoking severe intoxication of the body, but it can deliver several painful hours. Mushroom causes in humans easy poisoning - mainly intestinal and stomach disorders. 
Intoxication is expressed by weakness in the body, high sweating, cutting in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of consciousness is possible. These symptoms usually occur one or two hours after the consumption of mushrooms for food.
This variety is not suitable for use in food purposes also because of the caustic and burning taste of the pulp, as well as its strong repulsive smell. The stench from the fungus is so persistent that it does not disappear even after a long heat treatment. The same applies to the unpleasant bitterness.
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How does it look
Further we will get acquainted with the botanical description, distinctive features, as well as photos of the Tricholoma album. The fruit body of this species is characterized by rather big sizes and powerful addition, skinny samples are almost not found. So, for the white tricholoms are characteristic the following outward appearance signs. 
Hat
The diameter of the cap can vary from 5 to 10 cm (the maximum possible diameter is 12 cm). To the touch the surface of the cap is smooth, always dry (matte). In young samples, it is rather dense, markedly convex, with a fleshy, wrapped edge. As it grows, it expands to a flat-prostrate shape with a lowered margin (a large blunt tubercle is usually retained in the center of the cap).
Yellow-brown, poplar, purple, green rows can be eaten.
Being initially completely white, the color of the cap gradually becomes dull, grayish. In old specimens, the cap is covered with light ocher spots, and its center is colored yellowish-brown or brown. The cracked cap is a consequence of the difference in temperature, moisture deficiency, and most importantly - this sign about yourself makes it possible to know the age of the fungus. 
Leg
The leg is powerful, elastic, has a cylindrical shape, at the base is somewhat stretched. Its height is 5–10 cm, and its thickness is 1–2 cm. Sometimes a powdery appearance appears on the surface of the leg. As for color, in young ryadovok it is similar to the color of the cap (that is, white), but over time it changes to yellowish-brown (at the base, the color may turn black). In addition, the legs of old samples dry out, harden and crack easily. It is easy to recognize white tricholem by a characteristic split leg.
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Records
Under the cap of the fungus, one can observe wide, frequent, winding plates of different lengths. Hymenophore grows a tooth to the leg, but at the same time it descends a little on it. In young tricholes, the plates are painted white, and in overgrown ones they are a little yellowish. 
Pulp
The pulp is fibrous, fleshy, dense, white in color. At damage in places of a break, the color gradually turns into a pink tone. In old samples, the pulp is easily split. A distinctive feature of this type of tricholomus is a peculiar odor, which emits pulp at a break. Some mushroom pickers compare this nasty "smell" with the smell of gas or the stench of stale mildew. Others point out that the smell reminds them of the aroma coming from the radish. Mature white tricholoms are easy to smell before visual contact with them. At the same time, in young samples, the flesh has almost no odor, or it smells weaker than mature ones.
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Spore powder
The described species of tricholoms has oblong, smooth, white spores. Spore powder is also characterized by a white color.
Important! Remember that the accurate recognition of Tricholoma album among the huge variety of white-colored mushrooms is possible only at the gathering place and only with an experienced mushroom picker. Description and even photos will not give you a complete picture of this sample of the mushroom kingdom.
Where and when grows
White rowing can be found in dense deciduous or mixed forests, often in birch forests or where beech grows. Also quite often the species is found in a grove, at the edge of a forest, in a park area, near populated areas, as well as in meadows, light glades and other open areas covered with grassy vegetation. 
As for the main range of growth, the white row is widespread throughout the European continent. White tricholome prefers acidic soils. The fungus usually grows in large groups (rows), which fully justifies its name.
Growth period begins in July. The richest fruiting is observed in the last weeks of September. Foul-smelling fruit bodies are usually transferred after the first frost - in mid-October. Due to the dense composition of the fruit body, these creatures can stand for a very long time. Under good climatic conditions, the most successful samples can survive for up to three weeks without external signs of damage.
Did you know? Mushrooms are surprisingly survivable organisms, their places of growth can be the most extreme. They survive at an altitude of 30 thousand meters above the ground, can exist on the surface of sulfuric acid, transfer pressure to 8 atmospheres and high radiation. Mushrooms were even found in the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The find was discovered in 2002. The most amazing thing is that they felt great. Moreover, they needed doses in order to live (just as plants need the sun). In the composition of these fungi, the compound melanin (an analogue of a substance protecting the skin from ultraviolet radiation) was detected.
What mushrooms are like
Tricholom white is a very changeable creature. Sometimes it resembles edible govorushki, and in an unfavorable period, it can turn around at all with a young white fungus. 
White mushroom
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The described species is easily confused with another inedible fungus of the Row family - tricolomy stinky. The color in this case is slightly grayish, the plates are rare, and the leg is much longer than the white row. The fetal body of the stinking variety is rich in hallucinogens, which can cause auditory and visual hallucinations in humans. 
Tricholoma inamoenum (stinking row) The white row has similarities with tricholome gray. But the gray species grows mainly in pine forests, has a sticky cap and a pleasant smell. In addition, the flesh of the gray ryadovki on a fracture slightly yellow, and in the white tricholes, as we remember, it turns pink. 
Tricholoma portentosum (gray row) In addition, because of the white color from a distance, it can be easily mistaken for a representative of the genus Champignon. However, if you look closely, then edible champignons can be seen on plates of various colors (from pink to dark brown), while darkening is not peculiar to plates of Tricholomy. 
Another external difference from champignons is that there are no rings on the leg or a blanket under the cap. And if you smell, you can feel the obvious differences - there is no sharp, disgusting smell in the pulp of the champignon. On the contrary, champignons have an attractive anise flavor.
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The white trichome from champignon is also distinguished by a pungent, pungent taste, but it is better not to test this difference in practice, so as not to harm your health.
Video: white row
We hope that this review will help you not to be a little confused and not to be mistaken when the season of picking mushrooms comes. In order not to accidentally eat Tricholoma album and not get food poisoning, it is better not to put yourself and your family in danger and simply throw the dubious fungus out of your basket.
