White, chanterelles, honey mushrooms, mushrooms, russula ... Russian forests can boast an abundance of a variety of mushrooms. The diversity of their species just leads to severe poisoning, reports of which with the beginning of each mushroom season appear in the media. Going on a “silent hunt”, it will not be out of place to recall what the mushroom counterparts look like, how they differ from the representatives of the kingdom of wildlife that are so desired in our basket. After all, awareness is a reliable way to avoid the grave consequences of poisoning with "wrong" gifts of the forest.
There are no mushrooms more toxic than pale toadstools - treacherous counterparts of russula and champignon mushrooms. Many believe that a pale grebe with its appearance should resemble 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 the stem and a good smell. At a young age, the grebe resembles an oblong-shaped egg. The color of the hat is white, yellowish-olive or light green. This type of mushroom can be found from June to October in both coniferous and deciduous forests. As a rule, the result of tasting a pale toadstool is a fatal outcome. Moreover, the symptoms of poisoning manifest themselves only after a day and quickly pass. On the 7-10th day, a person dies from acute renal or hepatic insufficiency.
Often, dangerous mushroom counterparts have incredible similarities to their edible "twins." So, bile fungus, which is found in coniferous forests from mid-summer to September, is easily confused with white. Experienced mushroom pickers determine the bile fungus by a white tubular layer, pinkish flesh and bitterness. This mushroom is not poisonous. At the same time, it is inedible. If he accidentally finds himself in a cooked dish, the bitter taste of food will be impossible to fix.
Satanic is less like porcini than bile, however, and it sometimes appears on the dining table. Dangerous and poisonous mushrooms can be identified by the pulp. In the satanic mushroom, it is yellowish in color, on the cut it turns blue or slightly red.
There are doubles of mushrooms, known as common mushrooms. False mushrooms growing in large groups on decaying wood, there are several species. Two of these are considered the most dangerous: sulfur-yellow and brick-red false mushrooms. It is important to be able to distinguish between poisonous and edible mushrooms, for which it is enough to carefully look at the characteristic color of the hat and the absence of scales on it. On the leg of the poisonous honey agaric there is no “skirt” ringlet. If a pleasant, typically mushroom smell comes from real honey agarics, then false ones smell unpleasantly.
Mushroom twins, very similar to chanterelles, are considered conditionally edible. They are also called chanterelles, only false. You can meet orange-red mushrooms with hats wrapped in a funnel on the stumps and trunks of conifers.
Mushroom pickers collect forest gifts in order to extract from them undoubted health benefits. But almost all edible mushrooms have their antipodes, which, if they are not deadly poisonous, are unsuitable for consumption. You can protect yourself from the many troubles that the doubles of edible mushrooms deliver, if you ignore the dubious ones and send to the basket only those mushrooms in which there is 100 percent confidence.