What is the main difference between an experienced mushroom pickerbeginner? The experienced collector distinguishes about a thousand different species of fruit bodies that grow in forests and in the meadows of its climatic zone. He knows what kind of smell emits edible and deadly poisonous mushrooms. He knows the places where they can grow, and the time that is favorable for them. He also knows which mushroom turns blue on the cut, why it happens, and also that some fruit bodies emit milky juice - white or orange. He does not collect his harvest on the roadsides and near industrial zones. After all, fungi absorb all heavy metals and toxic substances. Thus, even the boletus becomes dangerous to health.
Are there distinctive features of edible and poisonous mushrooms?
Unfortunately, only one, but he does not guarantee,that you do not dial into your box trash. This is the so-called "bed of death". This is the name of the notch between the leg and the mushroom picking of certain fly agaric mushrooms in the ground. Neither the smell (unpleasant in some edible species), nor the taste (neutral for some poisonous ones) can not with certainty say what is before you. The same applies to the sign when the fungus turns blue on the cut. The novice collector simply needs to take a catalog and remember how the boletus, chanterelles, mushrooms and octopus look like, and how - dangerous pallid grebe, fox, fly agaric and a whole cohort of "false", forged under edible. And even better - a couple of times go to the forest with an experienced person who will show and tell.
Why the fungus turns blue on the cut
Many ignorant people consider this blue as blueevidence of the virulence of the find, and therefore do not take it into their basket. And in vain! The change in color means only that the oxidation reaction occurs from contact with air. Mushroom flesh can not only turn blue, but also turn green, become black, red, brown. And also start to "bleed" - the lacteal carrot juice, which stands out at the break, frightens inexperienced mushroom pickers from a delicious redhead.
What mushrooms turn blue on the cut
Very quickly becomes a dark green fracturepodreerezovika. Ryzhik, which in Russia is called a royal mushroom, and in Ukraine - a trump card (for a smart red-orange color), too, being cut, strongly turns blue. Related to the first category of boletus change color when you press the cap and cut the legs. Not insured against discoloration and mushrooms of the highest category. Even in the glorious cohort of borovikov there are such. For example, very tasty, found in the pine forests of the Polish mushroom. The moss is also turning blue on the cut (another name is the swamp). In the southern part of Russia and in Ukraine in oak groves, acacia and chestnut gaius, mushrooms that are excellent in taste, also change in color, grow. They become blue, green, black or brown. It's a speckled oak tree, chestnut. And the bruise becomes blue from just one touch.
