Thin pig - a variety of fungi belonging to the family of pigs. It has several scientific synonyms: Paxillus involutus, Rhymovis involuta, Agaricus involutus, Agaricus contiguus, Omphalia involuta. Popular names even more: pork
ear, pig,
pig, swine, cod, horse lip, duni, straw, barn, thin paxil, solopen, dunk, etc.
In the past , the thin sow fungus was considered edible. But after the death of the German mycologist J. Schaeffer in 1944, who tasted a dish from these gifts of the forest, the attitude towards them changed dramatically. Currently, these mushrooms are usually classified as poisonous, although lovers feast on them, despite the publication, are available. Most of the people stopped using them, which is probably why they began to meet more often in forests.
These mushrooms grow in shady, moist places, sometimes tree trunks are dotted with them. They grow, as a rule, in groups, single copies are extremely rare. From May to early October, their mass appearance is observed. Fruiting occurs annually. An amazingly tenacious and productive mushroom family. They are the first to appear in areas of felled forests. For life and reproduction, they require woody plant debris.
Few people will answer the question of how a
mushroom looks thin. The photos presented in the article will clarify. The hat is fleshy, concave in the center, with a diameter of up to 18 cm. Its edges are lowered, tucked down, slightly wavy. The color of the cap of the young mushroom is olive brown, the old - gray-brown. When feeling in dry weather, the surface is dry, in cloudy - sticky.
The young mushroom is characterized by dense flesh, the old - loose. The cut in the air is getting dark. The thin pig has a cylindrical, short leg, often tapering downward, with a length of not more than 9 cm. Its color is dirty-olive, its 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 hat is a hymenophore with a spore-bearing layer (hymenia). Its color is yellowish-brown. The structure is folded, pseudo-plate, different from the true plate in that it does not separate from the surface of the cap.
Thin pig contains lectins - specific toxins that are not destroyed when
heat treated. People react differently to them: someone does not harm the frequent use of mushrooms, others just need to try once, and a strong allergic reaction is possible. No antidotes have been found.
It is proved that with the frequent use of these fungi, agglutins that respond to fungal antibodies accumulate in the human body. The first symptoms of poisoning are: colic, dizziness, diarrhea, renal and hepatic impairment. A lethal outcome is not excluded . If death occurs, then from acute respiratory or renal failure, which does not develop instantly, but about two weeks. The most effective plasmapheresis and hemodialysis, due to which deadly antibodies are removed from the blood. In addition to lectins, the thin pig is able to accumulate radioactive isotopes of copper and cesium, the concentration of which can exceed permissible norms hundreds of times.
Thin pig - an insidious mushroom, it is more reasonable to refuse its use.