How often did you find unfamiliar mushrooms? Surely every lover of "silent hunting" faced this. A number of signs will help distinguish edible species from poisonous ones. Let's try to figure out which mushroom turns blue on the cut.
First, you should immediately make a reservation that there are many tubular and lamellar species that change the color of the flesh on the cut. This is due to the oxidation in air of certain substances in the composition. The mushroom, blue on the cut, can be either a delicious boletus or poisonous false white. The latter is one of the most dangerous, containing a huge amount of toxins and causing severe poisoning.
Caution: Dangerous Doubles
If you don’t know which mushroom turns blue on the cut, but such a handsome man met on your way, be extremely careful. This is the so-called "satanic mushroom," or false white. Outwardly, he really resembles a boletus. The same dense fleshy leg, a convex hat, but there are a number of differences! White mushroom on the cut does not change color. The flesh of the poisonous double instantly turns blue or turns pink. In addition, the leg of the satanic mushroom is covered with a pronounced mesh, and the color is much brighter than that of the boletus.
Another false white is bitterness. It is much more difficult to poison them because of the taste. Compared to porcini mushroom, the mustard has a thinner leg, blue or pinkish flesh and a disgusting bitter taste.
Edible species
To find out which
mushroom turns blue on the cut, you should consider edible species that are quite common. These are tubular varieties: boletus, boletus,
Polish mushroom.The fruit body of the boletus instantly turns blue on the cut, and both the leg and the hat darken. Because of this, the boletus looks ugly in dishes, but it has an excellent taste and wonderful aroma. You can recognize it by a bright red hat and a gray mesh leg.
The leg of the brown boletus is blue, but not so clearly, and the hat remains completely white on the cut. The fruit body consists of a long leg (1-1.5 cm in diameter) and a brown convex cap. Color can vary from light (almost white) to dark chestnut. The leg is always gray, with barely noticeable scales.
The rarest “blue” mushroom
Much less common are specimens known under the names "Polish mushroom", or dupe. This is a real find, because you can only find them in deciduous, mostly oak forests. Since its flesh varies greatly in color, it is important to know which mushroom turns blue on the cut. According to experienced mushroom pickers, dupeas immediately change color on the cut, becoming dark blue or even purple. However, in drying, this color disappears somewhere.
Outwardly, the duvet can be confused with both white and boletus. But if you take a closer look, it is easy to notice that the hat of the Polish mushroom is always open, even the prostrate is open, especially in old fruiting bodies. The pulp is tender, has a pleasant taste, because of which it is often damaged by worms. The color of the surface of the cap is noble brown, coffee, rich chestnut. In a humid environment, the skin glistens, but does not stick to the hands. On the reverse side, the tubular layer is yellow in color, in mature fruiting bodies it has a green tint, when pressed, it turns blue. It grows in Europe in oak groves, but in Russia it can be found in conifers, however, this is very rare.