{"id":30142,"date":"2021-11-30T16:23:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/?p=30142"},"modified":"2021-11-30T16:23:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:23:59","slug":"the-white-saddle-helvella-crispa-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/11\/30\/the-white-saddle-helvella-crispa-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"The White Saddle (Helvella Crispa) Identification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>White Saddle \/ Summer \/ Autumn \/ Toxic<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-30142 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/11\/30\/the-white-saddle-helvella-crispa-identification\/white-saddle-nice\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-nice-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-30147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-nice-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-nice-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-nice.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-30147'>\n\t\t\t\tLozongo, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/11\/30\/the-white-saddle-helvella-crispa-identification\/white-saddle-close\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-close-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-30146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-close-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-close-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-close.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-30146'>\n\t\t\t\tBj\u00f6rn S&#8230;, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/11\/30\/the-white-saddle-helvella-crispa-identification\/white-saddle-stem\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-stem-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-30145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-stem-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-stem-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-stem.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-30145'>\n\t\t\t\tDominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2021\/11\/30\/the-white-saddle-helvella-crispa-identification\/white-saddle-cap\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-cap-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-30144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-cap-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-cap-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-cap.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-30144'>\n\t\t\t\tDominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2><strong>Scientific Name<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Helvella Crispa<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Common Names<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The White Saddle, Elfin Saddle, Common Helvella.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Family<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Helvellaceae<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Habitat<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In leaf litter, most often Beech and Oak.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Description\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A common, mildly toxic fungus, found\u00a0 in summer and autumn, its unusual appearance makes it easy to identify.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Identifying Features:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Cap:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Very irregular, white to creamy in colour. Roughly saddle shaped hence the common name.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30146\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30146\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-close-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-close-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-close-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-close.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bj\u00f6rn S&#8230;, CC BY-SA 2.0 &lt;https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Stem:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The same colour as the cap, it tend to taper in towards the cap and have flutes or ribs running the length, hollow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30145\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30145\" src=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-stem-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-stem-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-stem-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-saddle-stem.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0 &lt;https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Gills:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>No gills, this species is a \u2018spore shooter\u2019 (ascomycetes) rather than a \u2018spore dropper\u2019 (basidiomycetes)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Smell:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>No real aroma.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Spores:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>White.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Known hazards<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Some older books might list it as edible but there is speculation that it may contains monomethylhydrazine (used to power the space shuttle), which can cause severe intoxication, and that it may also have carcinogenic properties. So best avoided.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Potential lookalikes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Other members of the Helvella family for example the Elastic Saddle (Helvella Elastica), although this mushroom tends to have a smooth stem. No members of this family are considered edible so are not really of interest to us foragers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Saddle \/ Summer \/ Autumn \/ Toxic Scientific Name Helvella Crispa Common Names The White Saddle, Elfin Saddle, Common Helvella. Family Helvellaceae Habitat In leaf litter, most often Beech and Oak. Description\u00a0 A common, mildly toxic fungus, found\u00a0 in summer and autumn, its unusual appearance makes it easy to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":30147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,88],"tags":[239,522,523,113,383,238,521,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30197,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30142\/revisions\/30197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}