Honey mushrooms are loved by the people because of the ease of collection and versatility. These mushrooms can be fried, boiled, dried, salted, pickled and frozen! In mushroom time, finding delicious friendly families is not difficult. Inexperienced lovers of "quiet hunting" can face only one problem - how to distinguish edible mushrooms from false ones.
Edible or false mushroom
Before going into the forest, it is important to study the question of what is the most common mushroom growing in your area at a given time of the year. The same goes for "imitator" mushrooms.
Knowing the places where honey agarics and false ones are growing will not in itself help a mushroom picker to distinguish between edible and inedible specimens. Both those and others can choose the same trees, stumps, deadwood, rhizomes, or simply grow in the grass.
The honey agaric group includes many species. It will be about the most common and favorite mushroom pickers:
- autumn forest,
- a mushroom with a thickened leg.
It is with these two types of mushrooms that the most common false hornets are usually confused:
- false mushrooms (false mushrooms) brick-red,
- false mushrooms (false mushrooms) are sulfur-yellow.
How to distinguish mushrooms from false ones: simple rules
There are simple rules on how to distinguish a real mushroom.
If you are in doubt whether or not a false mushroom is growing in front of you, the first thing you can do is sniff the hat. The edible mushroom has a pleasant, characteristic mushroom aroma, while the inedible mushroom has a rather unpleasant, earthy amber.
The leg of a young edible honey fungus is usually decorated with a "skirt" made of film, which serves as a protection for the fruiting body. Mushrooms-imitators do not have it!
If you turn the mushroom upside down with a leg, you can study the color of the plates. In edible specimens, it is white with a yellowish tinge, cream, in false ones - from yellow to olive and blackish.
An important distinguishing feature that allows you to distinguish edible mushrooms from false ones is the surface of the mushroom cap. In a young (not overripe!) Honey fungus, it can be scaly, while in a false foam, as a rule, it is smooth.
The hats of the edible mushrooms are painted in a calm light brown color, while the "caps" of the false ones are more elegant. The palette of false horns - from the color of gray to the color of red brick.
And, of course, the first rule for any novice mushroom picker will never lose its relevance: if you are not sure, don't take it. If you are picking mushrooms for the first time, the harvest must be shown to a more experienced lover of quiet hunting before use.
