In the Krasnodar Territory, you can please yourself with a lot of edible mushrooms, but you must be extremely careful when collecting this product, because you can accidentally run into a poisonous mushroom, which can cause serious problems when consumed. Aware - means warned.
Edible mushrooms
In the Krasnodar Territory, there are many types of edible mushrooms, which are described below.
White mushroom
Description. The porcini mushroom has a convex hat, with a diameter of 7 to 30 cm (sometimes up to 50 cm). Color from light brown to burgundy. The barrel-shaped thick leg extends during the growth process, while maintaining a thickening from below. The height of the fungus reaches up to 25 cm in height. It predominates in dense, juicy and fleshy flesh.
Where and when does it grow? They grow in mixed forests, right on the ground. Gather mushrooms in summer and autumn. White mushroom prefers old forests, which are abundantly overgrown with mosses and lichens. They grow no worse on sandy and loamy soils and sandy loams. They grow on all continents, with the exception of Australia and Antarctica. Season - from June to September. Occasionally, mushroom growth is possible in May and October, but the end of August is considered the most fruitful.
Varieties. There are several varieties of ceps:
- Birch cep. It is distinguished by a yellow, sometimes almost white hat, with a diameter of up to 15 cm. It has a pale brown leg. Mushrooms grow in groups or singly along roads or at the edges in places with a cool climate.
- Oak porcini mushroom. A fragrant mushroom that loves warmth and deciduous forests. It grows under hornbeams, lindens, oaks, chestnuts. Has a large hat, which in diameter can reach up to 30 cm.
- Pine white mushroom. It has a bright color. The diameter of the hat is 20 cm. The hat of a mature mushroom becomes dark red. Mushrooms grow not only in well-lit glades in coniferous forests, but also under the canopy of dense crowns.
Doubles. Looks like poisonous satanic mushroom and inedible bile fungus.
White mushroom birch
White mushroom oak
Boletus edulis pine
Boletus edulis looks like poisonous Satanic mushroom
The double mushroom is the inedible bile fungus
Oyster mushrooms
Description. Wild oyster mushrooms with a concave shape, light gray with a purple hat, darkening with age. The diameter of the cap reaches up to 20 cm. A short leg with a diameter of up to 10 cm differs in a conical shape and a light shade. It predominates in white, juicy pulp, which becomes tougher with age.
Where and when does it grow? Oyster mushrooms are parasitic fungi that feed on tree sap. Therefore, they are most often found on fallen trunks and old trees that begin to rot. They grow on birches, pines, aspen and sometimes on willows.
Varieties. Oyster mushrooms come in several varieties:
- Horn-shaped. It differs in a cone-shaped hat, due to which the mushroom got its name. Oyster mushroom is from light brown to dark brown.
- Oak. The shape of the hat is flat or convex, color from yellowish-gray to gray-brown. The edges are wrapped.
- Autumn. Late-lobate, ear-shaped hat. First, its edges are bent, then straight. The color is dark and can vary from gray-brown-olive to brown with a purple hue or yellow-green spots.
Oyster mushroom
Oyster mushroom oak
Oyster mushroom autumn
Oyster mushrooms have neither edible nor toxic analogues.
Hrabovik
Description. The long, scaly leg of the mushroom reaches a height of 5 to 13 cm. It has a gray-brown color. The hat resembles a pillow with a flat base, round, slightly tuberous. The diameter of the cap is up to 14 cm. It differs in fragrant, soft flesh.
Where and when does it grow? It grows on the roots of hornbeam, occasionally poplar, birch, walnut. It can be found in birch groves, among poplars and other deciduous trees. Harvesting starts from June to October.
Doubles. Often, a hornbeam is confused with a boletus, due to the amazing similarity.
Oak Chest
Description. Edible mushroom, but requiring special treatment before cooking, as it contains bitter juice. It has a light flesh with a pleasant aroma. The hat is concave in the middle, the shade is reddish-orange. The diameter of the hat reaches about 6 cm. The height of the legs is up to 7 cm, dominated by a light shade.
Where and when does it grow? The fungus grows in deciduous forests of the middle zone and the south. Prefers clay soil. Begins to bear fruit from mid-summer to the end of September. In search of mushrooms, they comb through forests in the west of the Kaliningrad region. The most popular destinations are Kumachevo, Kruglovo, the Baltic Spit. In the south-west, breasts are found in Ushakovo, Ladushkinsky forest, Devil's Bridge.
Varieties. Oak chestnut has several varieties in this region:
- Peppermint The hat is predominantly creamy white, occasionally has reddish spots. The surface in the center of the cap is slightly velvety. A distinctive feature of the mushroom is a sharp pepper flavor and aroma resembling rye bread.
- Aspen Lump. It is considered conditionally edible, due to the content of milky juice. It grows in warm areas of the temperate climatic zone. Grows in groups. Ripens underground.
Doubles. You can confuse oak lumps with inexperience with a lactarius with a large or pink throat.
Peppercorns
Aspen chest
The lump can be confused with the poisonous Mlechnik prickly
Yellow hedgehog
Description. The mushroom is also called Gidnum or Dentium notch. The hedgehog has a smooth yellow hat with a diameter of 3-6 cm. The yellow-white leg, up to 8 cm high, expands from the bottom. The mushroom pulp is light, brittle, and has a fruity smell. Old mushrooms are a bit bitter.
Where and when does it grow? The mushroom grows in groups near tree trunks in mixed forests. Harvest fruits from mid-August to late November.
Violet Pocket
Description. Violet lacquer is a small and beautiful mushroom, which sometimes scares off with its non-standard color. Violet-purple color - a distinctive feature of the mushroom. It predominates with a perfectly round hat, with a diameter of about 5 cm. The hat is located on a high, thin leg. Virtually odorless.
Where and when does it grow? It grows in forests, in humid lowlands on a mossy substrate. They pick mushrooms from the beginning of June until the end of November.
Varieties. A variation of the fungus is pink varnish, characterized by a diverse shape of the cap: from a convex-depressed in youth to a funnel-shaped in old age. The diameter of the cap is 2-6 cm. It does not have a special smell and taste.
Doubles. Violet lacquer is similar to a poisonous mushroom - a clean mycena, often growing in the neighborhood. The main difference between mycenae is a rare smell and the presence of white or grayish plates.
Chanterelles
Description. Mushrooms that are often found in mushroom pickers. Confusing them with other mushrooms is almost impossible. Chanterelles have concave caps with wavy edges. The diameter of the hat is up to 10 cm. Color - from yellow to orange. The smell of pulp resembles dried fruits.
Where and when does it grow? They grow in forests, especially conifers. The season begins in spring and ends at the end of autumn. Mushrooms grow plentifully in July.
Varieties. There are more than 60 species of chanterelles, many of which are edible. There are such varieties of chanterelles growing in the Krasnodar Territory:
- Common. Shades from light yellow to orange. It predominates in fleshy flesh, yellow on the edges and white on the cut. A distinctive feature is a slight acidity when consumed in dishes.
- Gray. Edible mushroom with elastic flesh, gray or brownish tint. A hat with wavy edges and a recess in the center.
Doubles. You can confuse the chanterelles with an inedible mushroom with orange talker and a poisonous analogue - olives omphalot.
Ordinary chanterelles
Gray fox
Chanterelles can be confused with Omphalot olive
Butterflies
Description. Small and medium-sized mushrooms, somewhat similar to mushrooms. Young mushrooms are characterized by a hemispherical, sometimes conical hat, which straightens with age, and its shape resembles a small pillow. The diameter of the hat reaches up to 15 cm. A special feature of the mushroom is a thin skin-film covering the hat: shiny and adhesive. It has a soft but dense pulp with a whitish or yellowish tint.
Where and when does it grow? Mushrooms grow under coniferous trees, less often under oaks and birches. Some butterflies grow next to only one type of tree, while others grow with various coniferous plants: cedar, spruce, pine, larch. Harvest from the beginning of summer until mid-October.
Varieties. In the Krasnodar Territory, there are some edible varieties of butter:
- Granular. At a young age, the mushroom has a convex hat of a rusty hue, in the old - a pillow-shaped shape and color, close to yellow-orange. At the top of the legs you can see milk liquid droplets that are secreted by spores.
- Yellow-brown. On the cut, the light yellow flesh of the mushroom turns blue. The young oiler has a semicircular hat, with a diameter of 5-14 cm. With age, the hat acquires a pillow-shaped shape.
- Ordinary. Late mushroom, the hallmark of which is a hat of such shades: yellow-brown, brownish-purple, red-brown, brown-chocolate.
Doubles. Some types of butter are confused with pepper mushroom, which has a convex, smooth, shiny hat.
Granular butterflies
Yellow brown butterflies
Common butterflies
Butterflies Confused With Inedible Pepper Mushroom
Flywheel
Description. The flywheel at a young age is characterized by a convex or semicircular shape of a hat with straight edges. Over time, the hat takes on a pillow shape. Diameter - 4-20 cm. The surface can be bare, wet, sticky and velvety or covered with scales. They are found in dark yellow, chestnut, lemon, olive yellow, brown, dark yellow.
Where and when does it grow? Mushrooms grow in coniferous, mixed and deciduous forests, creating mycorrhiza with spruce, beech, hornbeam, pine, chestnut, alder or linden. Mushrooms are most often found in forest glades and edges. As a rule, grow one by one. Harvest from July to the end of October-November.
Doubles. There are no poisonous mushrooms among real mushrooms, but they are often confused with inedible or other dangerous mushrooms, for example, bile or pepper mushrooms.
Mushrooms
Description. A distinctive feature is a thin, sometimes excessively long leg, reaching about 12-15 cm in height. Its color varies from light honey to dark brown, depending on the age of the fungus. Attracted by a plate-shaped, sometimes rounded down hat, covered with small scales. The color of the hat is cream, yellowish, sometimes reddish.
Where and when does it grow? Honey mushrooms grow not only near trees, but also next to some shrubbery plants, on forest edges and in meadows. Often they grow in groups on old stumps in a wooded area. Harvesting occurs in early May and ends at the end of October.
How to grow honey mushrooms on your farm is described here.
Varieties. Mushrooms in this area are of several types:
- Summer The leg above is light, smooth, and below it is covered with dark scales. Young summer mushrooms have a convex hat with a smooth, matte skin, a honey-yellow hue. The summer mushroom has a soft, moist flesh.
- Autumn. A mushroom that grows in large families or singly. The honey agaric has a high leg - 8-10 cm, its diameter reaches 1-2 cm. At the autumn honey agaric, the diameter of the cap is 3-15 cm. They differ in white, dense pulp.
- Winter. Mushroom with a bulging hat. The peel is predominantly yellow, brownish or brownish-orange. The flesh of the winter honey is white or with a slight yellowness.
- Lugovoi. The young mushroom is distinguished by a convex hat, flattening over time, with uneven edges. It predominates with thin, light flesh, pleasant to the taste.
Doubles. Edible mushrooms double are false mushrooms, the hats of which are painted in rust-brown, brick-red or orange. Real mushrooms have a hat that is light beige or brownish.
Honey fly summer
Autumn honey agaric
Winter honey agaric
Honey agaric
Double mushrooms are poisonous mushrooms
Boletus
Description. Young mushrooms have a white hat, and with age it acquires a dark brown hue. Mushrooms grow both individually and in small groups. In a boletus cap, the hat resembles the hemisphere, forming a pillow-shaped form with age. It predominates in white, dense pulp, slightly darkening in the cut. The diameter of the cap is up to 18 cm. The length of the cylindrical gray or white leg is up to 15 cm. On the surface of the leg there are dark gray scales located longitudinally.
Where and when does it grow? Birch trees grow in any light deciduous and mixed forests where there are birches. Mushroom pickers go to the forest when the bird cherry blossoms. Harvest until mid-autumn. It is better to look for fruits in open glades and forest edges. Mushroom pickers collect boletus in the Shipovsky forest, near Polessk, near the villages of Kosmodemyansky, Big Village, in the Soviet Forestry.
Varieties. There are a huge number of varieties, but in this region the following species of brown boletus prevail:
- Ordinary. The hat has a reddish or brown color. The mushroom's leg is dense, massive, covered with gray scales.
- Swamp. It is found on highly moistened soils. The hat is painted in light gray or light brown tones. The mushroom has friable flesh.
- Harsh. The mushroom cap is grayish, brownish and sometimes has a purple hue. The leg of a cylindrical shape differs in a cream shade at the bottom and white color closer to the hat.
- Multi-colored. The mushroom cap may be orange, pinkish or light brown. When it rains, the hat becomes mucous. Multi-colored brown boles have white legs, sometimes covered with gray scales.
Doubles. The double boletus is a bile mushroom with pockmarked, gray leg, white-gray hat. False boletus is very bitter.
Common boletus
Swamp birch
Harsh birch
Multi-colored birch
False birch bark is the inedible bile mushroom
Morel
Description. Mushrooms with ovoid-round caps of yellow-brown color. Morels are characterized by a cellular structure, grow from below to the leg and hollow inside. The legs predominate in a cylindrical shape, slightly widened downwards, and the color is white, light yellow and yellow-brown. Mushrooms have a white, brittle flesh, pronounced mushroom aroma and a pleasant taste.
Where and when does it grow? Morels can be found in mixed and deciduous forests; they grow on the fringes, clearings, and mossy ditches. Also found in parks and gardens. Grow in groups. Mushroom pickers look for them in places where there were forest fires. They gather mushrooms in early March, after the snow melts.
Varieties. There are such varieties of morels in a given area:
- Ordinary. The hat is brown in color with large meshes. There are mushrooms on the edges, lawns with grass. Gather fruits in May, and the season lasts until mid-June.
- Conical. A feature of such mushrooms is a bell-shaped conical shape of a hat with shallow wrinkles. Rarely found next to birch, willow or aspen.
Doubles. Edible morels can be confused with false morels, prevailing a dark olive hat, smell unpleasant, attracting insects.
Common morels
Conical morels
Morels Can Be Confused With Inedible Stitches
Truffle
Description. Externally, the truffle is similar to potato tubers or cones. The size of such a mushroom is slightly larger than a nut, but occasionally specimens exceeding 10 cm are found. The outer layer, which covers the mushroom, predominates on a smooth surface or indented by numerous cracks, and is also covered with characteristic polyhedral warts. The color of the truffle pulp depends on the variety.
Where and when does it grow? Truffle is found in mixed and deciduous forests. It is better to look for them under the roots of hornbeam, oak, beech. Very rarely, mushrooms grow in coniferous forests, from November to February-March.
Varieties. The most famous truffle variety in the Krasnodar Territory is the Black Summer Truffle. It reaches 10 cm in diameter and weighs 400 g. With age, the white flesh of the truffle becomes yellow-brown or gray-brown. The consistency also changes: in young mushrooms - dense, in old - loose. A special feature of the mushroom is a sweetish nutty taste and a light aroma of algae.
Doubles. Truffles have inedible doubles that are dangerous to eat. These include false and deer truffles.
Black summer truffle
Garlic
Description. A distinctive feature of the garlic is a small hat with a diameter of 2-3 cm. The young mushroom has a convex hemispherical shape, the old - open or slightly depressed, sometimes with a tubercle on top. The edges are wavy, irregular. The hat often has a completely smooth surface. Color - brown, cream or ocher red. Garlic has a pronounced garlic odor and a white, thin flesh. The hat is located on a thin leg, 2-3 mm thick, 3-5 cm long.
Where and when does it grow? Garlic is considered an all-weather mushroom, which is collected from May to early October. It grows in colonies in deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests at the edges and open glades. Mushroom pickers are guided by the smell of mushrooms, especially noticeable after rain.
Varieties. There is ordinary, oak and large garlic.
Doubles. Garlic is similar to such mushrooms:
- Garlic is oak. A rare species that grows on leafy oak leaves.
- The garlic is big. Large mushroom. The diameter of the cap reaches 5 cm. The species populates the fallen branches and foliage of beeches.
- Honey agaric. The mushroom is brownish in shape and color similar to garlic, but odorless.
Garlic Oak
Large garlic
Edible mushroom meadow similar to a garlic
Champignon
Description. Champignons have massive hats. At an early age, they are more rounded, but straighten and grow flat as they grow, reaching a diameter of 10 cm. The color of the hat can be white, brown, sometimes brown. Its surface is smooth, but also with hard scales. In champignons, the flesh is white with yellow or red tint. The leg is flat, dense.
Where and when does it grow? Mushrooms grow in the forest on the bark of decaying trees, in fields and meadows, near human habitation. Here they form large annular colonies. Depending on the varieties, champignons can be harvested from April-May to October.
Varieties. There are about two hundred varieties of edible, inedible or even poisonous champignons:
- Ordinary. Edible mushroom growing in park areas, gardens and vegetable gardens.
- Forest. Champignon grows in mixed and coniferous forests.
- Field. You can meet the mushroom in forest glades, clearing and in park areas. It practically does not grow near deciduous trees.
- Copper (thin). Edible mushroom growing in deciduous and coniferous forests. Often forms mycorrhiza with beech and spruce. It grows, both in small and in large groups.
Doubles. The double of the mushroom is false champignon. This is a poisonous mushroom, on the head of which there is a brown speck located in the center. When pressed on it, light yellow spots appear.
Champignon
Champignon forest
Field champignon
Champignon coppice
False champignon is poisonous
Wake
Description. The cap of the young mushroom is convex, with age - hollow with a deep indentation in the middle. The diameter of the hat is 4-12 cm. The hat is located on a solid and sturdy leg, 3 to 6 cm high. There are several varieties of the cap, so the color of the mushrooms varies.
Where and when does it grow? The mushroom grows near birches. It can be found in mixed forests. It grows more often under old trees. The white wave is growing from August to September. Pink thrush is collected from late June to October.
Varieties. The trefoil has several subspecies:
- pink (lupus);
- white (white);
- marsh (milky milky);
Doubles. Doppelgangers are considered to be doubles of milkworms, who look similar to them: a pinkish hat, the presence of reddish rings, but the absence of an edge along the edges.
Pink pink
White top
Marsh
Boletus
Description. The cap of the young mushroom is characterized by a hemispherical shape, with age it becomes pillow-shaped. The diameter of the cap can reach from 5 to 30 cm. The skin can be dry, felt or velvety. The mushroom's leg is high - up to 22 cm, has a club shape, small brown or black scales are located on the surface.
Where and when does it grow? Each type of fungus has one or more mycorrhizal partners-trees of a certain type. Mushrooms grow not only under aspens, but also under willows, spruces, poplars, birches, beeches, oaks. Depending on the species, harvesting occurs at the end of June and ends in October. They gather mushrooms in the forests near the village of Shepetovka, also near the picturesque Vishtynetsk lake.
Varieties. The boletus has several varieties that differ mainly in the shade of the hat:
- red;
- reddish brown;
- white.
There are oak, dwarf-footed, pine and black-scaled aspen.
Doubles. The mushroom has poisonous counterparts - false boletus, so to speak.
Red boletus
Boletus red-brown
Boletus white
Boletus confused with inedible mushroom Gorchak
Russula
Description. In russula, only hats differ. Otherwise, the mushrooms are similar to each other: the diameter of the cap reaches 10 cm, a straightened hat with slightly bent down edges.
Where and when does it grow? Russula can be found anywhere, including in deciduous or coniferous forests, young birch undergrowth or city park, on the swampy banks of the river. Mushrooms make their way through the ground in late spring, but begin to grow en masse in late August and early September.
Varieties. Russula has a huge number of varieties:
- Light yellow russula. It grows in moist birch and birch-pine forests from July to October. The hemispherical yellow hat changes over time to flat and funnel-shaped. The diameter of the hat is 5-10 cm.
- Blue russula. The mushroom is found in coniferous forests. Diameter - 3-10 cm. Grows on a white leg, 3-5 cm high.
- Green russula. It lives in coniferous and deciduous forests. We recognize the mushroom by a yellowish-green flat-convex hat with a diameter of up to 10 cm.
Doubles. Among the russula there are no toxic doubles, but you can confuse them with a pale grebe. Therefore, do not pick up mushrooms with a greenish hat.
Light yellow russula
Blue russula
Russula
Ryadovki
Description. Mushrooms with a hat-cutaneous structure. In a young row, the hat can be spherical, bell-shaped or conical, with a diameter of 3-20 cm. With age, the hat straightens and becomes flat-spread with a well-defined tubercle in the center. The color depends on the variety: white, green, red, yellow or brown. Leg height - 3-10 cm.
Where and when does it grow? Ordinary mushrooms are ground mushrooms. Many species are micro-formers, who prefer coniferous trees as mycorrhizal partners. Often they grow near pine trees, less often - under larch, fir and spruce. Rare species are in symbiosis with beech, oak and birch. They grow individually, in small or large groups. They are considered autumn mushrooms. Meet from the end of August to the end of October.
Varieties. There are about 100 species of row mushrooms, but in the Krasnodar Territory most often found:
- Gray. Has a gray hat, at first it is round, then it becomes flat and uneven. The color of the legs is white with a gray-yellow hue.
- Purple-footed. The surface of the hat is smooth yellowish-beige with a purple tint. A distinctive feature is a sweet taste and fruity aroma.
Doubles. The mushroom double is a poisonous rowan growing in deciduous and coniferous forests. In rowing, the hat has unfolded edges with a convex shape in the center and flat to the edges. The diameter of the cap is up to 12 cm. The mushroom has a whitish pulp, floury smell and taste.
The rowing is gray
Lilac leg
You can confuse an edible row with a poisonous row
Poisonous mushrooms
When picking mushrooms, it is very important to focus on choosing an edible mushroom, because there are a huge number of poisonous specimens that can cause serious poisoning, or worse, lead to death.
Flying (boletus) purple
Description. Bolet is a massive mushroom consisting of a hat and a thick leg. The hat has a spherical convex shape. The surface is velvety or smooth to the touch. The flesh of a lemon color, when pressed or cut, is blue.
Where does it grow and when? Mushrooms grow both singly and in groups. They are found in coniferous and deciduous forests under firs, oaks, pines, hornbeams, and beeches. The season begins in early June and ends in mid-September.
Who can be confused with? Outwardly, the flight is similar to a club. Therefore, you should be careful when collecting mushrooms, so as not to accidentally put poisonous mushrooms in the basket.
Entoloma
Description. Poisonous entoloma - a toxic mushroom with a round, sometimes conical hat, with a diameter of 5-17 cm, dirty pink in color with a grayish tint. Occasionally, folds occur in the center of the hat. The fungus has white flesh, which does not change color when broken. The height of the legs is 4-14 cm, the shape is cylindrical, slightly curved. It differs in the smell of freshly ground flour.
Where does it grow and when? The mushroom grows in deciduous or mixed forests. It is mainly found under willow, oak, hornbeam, beech, birch. Large congestions are extremely rare, more often it grows singly. Growth season - early May-mid-October.
Who can be confused with? You can confuse a poisonous entoloma with a garden entoloma, a row of May, an ordinary champignon, a hangman, a row of pigeon, smoky talker.
False honey
Description. False mushrooms grow in groups. There are several species, but they are all similar in appearance, and many of them are poisonous. They contain milky juice, which causes severe disturbances in the gastrointestinal tract. False mushrooms usually have elongated legs, hollow inside. They have smooth, more often bright hats.
Where does it grow and when? They grow in deciduous forests. False mushrooms settle not only on decaying stumps, but also on living trees that are sick, with damaged wood, for example, linden and birch. They grow from the beginning of May to the end of October.
Who can be confused with? You can confuse a false honey agaric with an oak wood open, an autumn open-air, a summer open-air or a meadow open-air.
Line
Description. A mushroom whose hat resembles a gyrus of the brain. First grows brown-chestnut, then becomes dark brown. The diameter of the cap varies from 2 to 13 cm. It has an uneven-round shape. The line has an empty and dry cylindrical leg, which is white, yellowish, reddish or gray.
Where and when does it grow? The usual line grows in coniferous forests, on loams and sandstones. Often, mushrooms are harvested in clearings, burnt areas, under poplars or birches. A giant line is collected in mixed and deciduous forests, under birches or near old stumps. Autumn stitch can be found in coniferous and mixed forests.
Varieties. There are several varieties of line:
- Giant. It has a folded-wavy hat that does not have a clear shape and grows to the leg of the mushroom. The young mushroom is characterized by a chocolate hat, the old - ocher. Diameter - 7-12 cm, less often the hat reaches 30 cm. It is located on a short leg.
- Autumn. The diameter of the folded hat is up to 10 cm, the color is brown, then black. The surface is velvety. The form is saddle-horn-shaped. Inside, an empty leg, painted in white-gray or gray-brown, reaches up to 10 cm in height.
Doubles. Autumn line (or horned) is a poisonous variety, therefore it is dangerous to eat such a mushroom for food. But some mushroom growers consider it edible, after repeated processing.
Giant stitch
Autumn line
Horned stitch
Yellow champignon
Description. The yellow champignon hat, with a diameter of 5-15 cm, has a spherical shape with the edges bent to the inside. Has a whitish or light gray, sometimes with grayish-brown spots, dry and smooth surface. It grows on a cylindrical leg slightly thickened from below, reaching a height of 6-10 cm. It differs in the smell of ink or carbolic acid.
Where does it grow and when? Yellow champignon is found from July to early October in abundant quantities after rains, not only in mixed forests, but also in parks, gardens, and places overgrown with grass.
Who can be confused with? Often this "fake" mushroom is confused with forest mushroom.
Death cap
Description. A deadly mushroom with a grayish or greenish, olive hat, 5-14 cm in diameter. It has a flat or hemispherical shape, even edges. A distinctive feature is the membranous ring on the top of the legs.
When and where does it grow? It grows both individually and in groups. Can be found in any forest. It accounts for the development at the beginning of the summer period.
Who can be confused with? Pale grebe is similar in appearance to mushrooms, green russula.
Fly agaric
Description. You can meet fly agaric, a mushroom with a red hat and white blotches on the surface quite often.
Where does it grow and when? Amanita grows in any forests, starting in July.
Who can be confused with? Amanita practically has no analogues, but often I confuse it with a caesarean mushroom, which is found only in the Caucasus.
Satanic mushroom
Description. The satanic mushroom, with a grayish hat in youth and greenish in adulthood, reaches a diameter of 10-25 cm. It differs in a massive, reddish-brown leg and bluish flesh when broken.
Where does it grow and when? It grows in mixed forests, most often under hazel, chestnuts, lindens. The collection season falls in mid-June and lasts until the end of September.
Who can be confused with? The copy is confused with a porcini mushroom, but the satanic one has a reddish leg, so you can not become a victim of poisoning by looking closely.
Pigs
Description. Pig - a poisonous mushroom that accumulates muscarin - a poison that does not collapse under the influence of temperature. A small mushroom that looks like a breast. The diameter of a rounded or elongated-rounded hat is 12-15 cm.
Where does it grow and when? It grows in groups, less often - one by one. It occurs in forests on the twisted tree roots from July to October.
Who can be confused with? Outward resemblance to a pig got russules and breasts.
Mushroom places in the Krasnodar Territory
Many mushroom pickers are concerned about the question “Where and when to pick edible mushrooms?”. You can find delicious products throughout the region of the Krasnodar Territory in pine, oak, hornbeam-oak, fir-beech and birch forests. Mushrooms are often found in shrubs, in clearings, where clay or sandy soil predominates.
Tuapse and Absheron are considered the richest regions for harvest. The following mushrooms are common here:
- chanterelles;
- russula;
- oyster mushrooms.
For white mushrooms, mushroom pickers go to the Kaluga, Saratov and Smolensk villages. It is worth searching for honey mushrooms in Goryachiy Klyuch, in the Arkhyz area between Kardyvach Lake and Krasnaya Polyana. Mushrooms are common in forests near the villages of Kaluga, Dakhovskaya and Smolenskaya. Boletus and cap boletus are collected in the forests of foothills and near the coast.
When does the season begin?
Fruiting in the Krasnodar Territory begins in mid-June and continues until October. Under proper weather conditions, in May, mushrooms begin to grow, so you can pick them earlier than usual.
Gather mushrooms in the Krasnodar Territory at a time when the air temperature is stable, unchanged. Constant heat, slight soft rains, contributing to an average humidity of 50% - optimal conditions for the growth of mushrooms.
Krasnodar Territory is very rich in various types of mushrooms. Such a product is especially popular for consumption in food, because from it you can cook salads, add to soups and main dishes. Mushroom pickers tirelessly go to the forests in search of edible mushrooms in order to sell them or to do conservation.
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