Mushroom twins are dangerous gifts of the forest

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:43

Whites, chanterelles, mushrooms, champignons, russula… Russian forests boast an abundance of various mushrooms. The diversity of their species just leads to severe poisoning, reports of which appear in the media at the beginning of each mushroom season. Going on a “silent hunt”, it will not be superfluous to remember what the twins of mushrooms look like, how they differ from the representatives of the kingdom of wildlife, which are so desirable in our basket. After all, awareness is a reliable way to avoid the serious consequences of poisoning with the “wrong” gifts of the forest.

There are no mushrooms more toxic than pale toadstools - insidious twins of russula mushrooms and champignons. Many people think that a pale grebe should look like something foul-smelling, fragile and slender. In fact, the appearance of this poisonous mushroom inspires confidence: a large, rather fleshy fruit with a “skirt” on a leg and a good smell. At a young age, the toadstool resembles an oblong egg. The color of the cap is white, yellowish-olive or light green. This type of mushroom can be found from June to October in both coniferous and deciduous forests. The result of tasting pale grebe is usually fatal. Moreover, the symptoms of poisoning manifest themselves only after a day and quickly pass. On the 7th-10th day, a person dies of acute kidney or liver failure.

The often dangerous look-alikes of mushrooms bear an incredible resemblance to their edible twins. So, the gall fungus, which is found in coniferous forests from mid-summer to September, is easy to confuse with white. Experienced mushroom pickers determine the gall fungus by its white tubular layer, pinkish flesh and bitterness. This mushroom is not poisonous. At the same time, it is inedible. If it accidentally ends up in a cooked dish, it will be impossible to correct the bitter taste of food.

Satanic is less like the white mushroom than the gall mushroom, however, and it sometimes ends up on the dinner table. A dangerous and poisonous mushroom can be identified by the pulp. In the satanic mushroom, it is yellowish in color, turns blue or slightly reddens when cut.

There are twin mushrooms known as common honey mushrooms. There are several types of false mushrooms growing in large groups on rotting wood. Two of these are considered the most dangerous: sulfur-yellow and brick-red false mushrooms. It is important to be able to distinguish poisonous from edible mushrooms, for which it is enough to carefully look at the characteristic color of the hat and the absence of scales on it. There is no “skirt” ring on the leg of the poisonous honey agaric. If a pleasant, typically mushroom smell emanates from a real honey agaric, then falsesmell bad.

Mushroom twins, very similar to chanterelles, are considered conditionally edible. They are also called chanterelles, only false ones. You can meet orange-red mushrooms with hats wrapped in a funnel on the stumps and trunks of coniferous trees.

Mushroom pickers collect forest gifts to extract undoubted he alth benefits from them. But almost all edible mushrooms have their antipodes, which, if not deadly poisonous, are unfit for human consumption. You can save yourself from many of the troubles that doubles of edible mushrooms cause if you bypass the dubious ones and send only those mushrooms in which you are 100 percent sure in the basket.