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In mushroom times: more about mushrooms

20.09.2010 - 12:49 |  Looduskalender
Photos: Arne Ader and Peeter Nukka
Translation: Liis
 
Shaggy inkcap

  Shaggy inkcap, lawyer's wig
Soomustindik   
  Coprinus comatus    
 
Five different species of inkcap (Coprinus) mushrooms grow in Estonia. The best known of them, the shaggy inkcap or lawyer’s wig (Coprinus comatus), the common inkcap or inky mushroom (Coprinus atramentarius) and the glistening inkcap (Coprinus micaceus) are all edible when young, and rather similar. The fairy ink cap (Coprinus disseminatus) and the Coprinus sylvaticus  are smaller than the previously mentioned; they are classified as non-edible. Their habitats are all fairly similar; there can be masses of them in lawns in the city occasionally, but to pick mushrooms in towns is not really to be recommended.
 
Marinated young shaggy inkcaps, with caps of 3-5 centimetres, are unsurpassed according to mushroom gourmets. As fried the taste is somewhat too strong.
 
NB! The inkcap mushrooms should never be eaten with anything that contains alcohol!
 

In the city inkcap mushrooms can make do with astonishingly poor growing conditions. Peter’s photo, sent today, illustrates the urbanisation.

 

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