Pig thin - a mushroom, the use of which can be fatal

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:47

Shinushka thin - a variety of mushrooms belonging to the family of pigs. It has several scientific synonyms: Paxillus involutus, Rhymovis involuta, Agaricus involutus, Agaricus contiguus, Omphalia involuta. There are even more popular names: pork

ear, pig, pig, pig, straw, horse lip, duny, straw, cowshed, thin paxil, solopen, dunka, etc.

Earlier, the thin pig mushroom was considered edible. But after the death of the German mycologist J. Schaeffer in 1944, who tasted a dish of these gifts of the forest, the attitude towards them changed dramatically. Currently, these mushrooms are usually classified as poisonous, although lovers will enjoy them, despite publications, there are. Most people have stopped using them, which is probably why they are more common in the forests.

These mushrooms grow in shady, damp places, sometimes tree trunks are dotted with them. Grow, as a rule, in groups, single specimens are extremely rare. From May to early October, their mass appearance is observed. Fruiting occurs annually. Surprisingly tenacious and fruitful family of mushrooms. They are the first to appear in areas of cut forests. For life and reproduction, they require woody plant residues.

Few people will answer the question of what a thin pig mushroom looks like. The photos presented in the article will clarify. The hat is fleshy, concave in the center, up to 18 cm in diameter. Its edges are lowered, tucked down, slightly wavy. The color of the cap of the young mushroom is olive-brown, the old one is gray-brown. When feeling in dry weather, the surface is dry, in cloudy weather it is sticky.

A young mushroom is characterized by a dense pulp, an old one is loose. The cut in the air darkens. The thin pig has a cylindrical, often tapering short leg, the length is not more than 9 cm. Its color is dirty olive, the surface is smooth. The mushrooms in question do not have a pronounced, characteristic taste and smell. In dry weather, they are often wormy.

Under the cap is a hymenophore with a spore-bearing layer (hymenium). Its color is yellowish-brown. The structure is folded, pseudo-lamellar, different from the true lamellar one in that it does not separate from the surface of the cap.

Thin pork contains lectins - specific toxins that are not destroyed by

heat treated. People react differently to them: infrequent use of mushrooms does not harm someone, while others only need to try once, and a strong allergic reaction is possible. No antidote found yet.

It has been proven that with the frequent use of these mushrooms, agglutins are accumulated in the human body, reacting tomushroom antibodies. The first symptoms of poisoning are: colic, dizziness, diarrhea, kidney and liver disorders. A lethal outcome is not ruled out. If death occurs, then from acute respiratory or renal failure, which does not develop instantly, but about two weeks. The most effective are plasmapheresis and hemodialysis, due to which deadly antibodies are removed from the blood. In addition to lectins, the thin pig is capable of accumulating radioactive isotopes of copper and cesium, the concentration of which can exceed the permissible norms hundreds of times.

Thin pork is an insidious mushroom, it is wiser to refuse to use it.