Voronezh region is an amazing land where mushroom pickers can find a huge number of varieties, both edible and poisonous mushrooms. There are champignons with butter and mushrooms with porcini mushrooms. Do not ignore the dangerous fly agaric and pale grebes. It is important to learn to distinguish an edible mushroom from a false double.
Edible mushrooms
There are a lot of edible mushrooms in the forests of Voronezh, therefore, when going on a “quiet hunt” it is important to be able to distinguish them from poisonous specimens.
Boletus
Description. Borovik is a mushroom with a convex hat in youth and a flat-convex in maturity. The diameter of the cap reaches 10-25 cm. The surface is smooth or wrinkled. Most often has a light brown color. The leg resembles a keg.
Where and when does it grow? Mushroom is widespread on sandy, sandy loam or loamy soils. You can meet in coniferous, mixed and deciduous forests. As a rule, mushrooms form mycorrhiza with oak, birch, spruce and pine. Grow from June to October.
Varieties. In the Voronezh region there are several varieties of boletus:
- Pine. Has a large dark hat.
- Oak. Brown hat with a grayish tint.
- Birch. Light hat. Grows under birch trees.
Doubles. Mushrooms are often confused with bile fungus, which is similar in appearance to oak mushrooms. Also a satanic mushroom is similar to boletus.
Pine boletus
Boletus oak
Borovik birch
Oyster mushroom
Description. Oyster mushroom is characterized by a concave shape of the hat, the prevailing light gray hat, sometimes with a purple hue. The diameter of the hat reaches up to 20 cm, located on a low conical, light leg. The mushroom has juicy pulp and a pleasant mushroom aroma.
Where and when does it grow? Mushrooms grow on birches, pines, willows and aspens. The most optimal conditions for growth are felled trunks and old trees starting to rot. In Voronezh, oyster mushrooms are harvested from September to December, but at low temperatures, mushrooms can be harvested in the summer.
Varieties. The most common variety in Voronezh is oyster mushroom (oyster mushroom).
Doubles. Oyster mushrooms have neither edible nor toxic analogues. The only thing is there is oyster mushroom orange, but you can distinguish it by a red hat. It is impossible to consume such mushrooms because of strong bitterness.
Oyster mushroom
Oyster mushroom
Orange oyster mushroom should not be eaten
Veselka
Description. The fruit body at a young age is semi-underground characterized by an oval-spherical or ovoid form. The hat is off-white in color, 3-5 cm in diameter. In just 30 minutes, the leg of the mushroom is formed, reaching up to 30 cm in height.
Where and when does it grow? It is very difficult to find this mushroom, but you can still find it in broad-leaved and mixed forests rich in humus. Veselka often forms mycorrhiza with shrubs, beech, hazel, oak. It grows both individually and in groups from May to October.
Varieties. On the territory of the Voronezh region common fun is found.
Doubles. Fun can be confused with the inedible fun of Hadrian, growing on sandy soil, with a longer egg at the beginning of growth and a pink-purple color. Also, the fungus has another double - the edible dictiphor double.
Mushroom fun
The fungus mushroom is confused with the inedible fungus of Hadrian
Veselka has an edible double “Dictiphor Tandem”
Talkers
Description. Talkers are small or medium-sized mushrooms with a whitish, dun, fawn or pinkish-brown hat 3-15 cm in diameter. In young mushrooms, the hat has a hemispherical shape, is located on a leg, about 8 cm high.
Where and when does it grow? Govorushki mushrooms appear from the end of summer and grow until late autumn in park areas, among meadows and fields. The genus forms persistent mycorrhiza with deciduous or coniferous trees in forests.
Varieties. The following varieties are distinguished in the Voronezh region:
- The talker is bent. Edible mushroom with a meaty hat with a bell shape.
- The funnel talker. Has a brownish-fawn, reddish or yellow-buffy hat, about 10 cm in diameter.
- The talker is smoky. Conditionally edible mushroom. The hat is gray-brown, ash-gray or tan, up to 15 cm in diameter.
Doubles. There is a false talker, outwardly practically no different from an edible mushroom. But the poisonous specimen has a powdery smell.
Talker bent
Funnel talker
Smoky talker
Morels
Description. The main difference of morels is ovoid-round hats, which have a pronounced yellow-brown color. Morels have a honeycomb structure, a cylindrical leg, white flesh and a pleasant taste.
Where and when does it grow? Mushroom pickers go for mushrooms in mixed and deciduous forests. Morels are found in mossy ditches, at the edges, in gardens and parks. They grow in groups in places after fires. The collection time is the beginning of March.
Varieties. There are several types of morels in a given area:
- Conical. The mushroom hat has a conical shape, made in the form of a bell.
- Ordinary. Spherical hat, 8 cm in diameter, brown. They are looking for a mushroom on the lawns in early May.
Doubles. Edible morels are confused with false dark olive specimens that smell bad.
Morel conical
Morel ordinary
Morel has an inedible double “line”
Russula
Description. Many varieties of russulas differ in hats. Otherwise, their similarity is the same. Russula have straightened caps with bent down edges, up to 10 cm in diameter.
Varieties. The following russula species are considered the most common:
- Green It can be found in deciduous and coniferous forests, focusing on a yellowish-green flat-convex hat.
- Blue The diameter of the blue hat varies from 3 to 10 cm, the height of the legs is 3-5 cm. The mushroom grows in coniferous forests.
- Yellow. It differs in a hemispherical hat, with a diameter of 5-10 cm. It grows in forests with birch and pine trees. Harvesting is from July to October.
Doubles. Russula counterparts are considered pale grebes.
Russula green
Russula blue
Yellow russula
Poisonous mushroom "Pale Grebe" is considered to be doubles of russula
Butterflies
Description. In young mushrooms, a hemispherical or conical hat, with the growing stage, it straightens, acquiring a pillow-shaped shape, reaching a diameter of up to 15 cm. The cylindrical leg reaches a height of 4-10 cm.
Where and when does it grow? Oil seeds grow under birches and oaks; they are found in early summer and until mid-October under coniferous trees. You can find butter in Novousmansky forestry, along Podlesnaya and Proletarskaya streets. In the village of Tavrovo you can find another field with these mushrooms.
Varieties. The following varieties are considered edible oils:
- Ordinary. A hat with a diameter of 4-12 cm is located on a leg with a height of 5 to 11 cm. There are various shades of hats: brown-chocolate, brownish-purple, red-brown, yellow-brown.
- Granular. A distinctive feature is a convex red hat with a pillow-shaped shape.
- Yellow-brown. A coniferous or metallic smell during a fault is considered a characteristic sign of differences.
Doubles. By inexperience, you can confuse butterfish with pepper mushroom, his hat is convex, smooth and shiny.
Common butterflies
Granular butterflies
Yellow brown butterflies
You can confuse butter with an inedible pepper mushroom
Mushrooms
Description. On a long leg, 12-15 cm high, there is a creamy, yellowish, reddish hat with small scales.
Where and when does it grow? Honey mushrooms grow en masse both near trees and near shrubby plants, in meadows and forest edges. In the Voronezh region, in Malyshevo, as well as in the Soldiers, located near the settlement of Maklok, there are always a lot of mushrooms. Harvesting begins in May and ends at the end of October.
Varieties. Such varieties of honey mushrooms are distinguished in this area:
- Summer Young honey agaric attracts with a pleasant taste, delicate and moist pulp, the smell of a living tree.
- Autumn. The hat with a diameter of 3-17 cm is located on the leg, 8-10 cm high. Fragrant, dense pulp.
Doubles. You can confuse mushrooms with false mushrooms, which have bright hats: rusty-brown, orange, red-rusty. These specimens have light beige or brown hats.
Honey agaric
Autumn honey agaric
You can confuse honey mushrooms with poisonous false honey mushrooms
How to grow honey mushrooms on your farm is described here.
Ryadovki
Description. A distinctive characteristic of mushrooms is the variation in the shape of the cap: conical, spherical, bell-shaped. They are white, red, brown, green, yellow. Diameter - 3-20 cm.
Where and when does it grow? Most often, rowans can be found near conifers, more often near pine trees, extremely rarely found under larch, spruce or fir. They can grow singly or in groups. Harvesting lasts from August to the end of September. In the Voronezh region, ranks can be found in the Left Bank forestry throughout the Leather Cordon.
Varieties. There is a purple, lilac-legged rowing, distinguished by the color of hats and legs.
Doubles. The row can be confused with a poisonous specimen that has an open hat with curled edges.
The row of purple
Purple footed rowing
The row can be confused with a poisonous specimen - gray row
Champignons
Description. Mushrooms with massive, rounded hats and thick legs. The hat diameter is 10 cm. White champignons are more common, but their color can be brown, sometimes with a brown tint. They have a clear mushroom or anise flavor.
Where and when does it grow? Champignons - mushrooms growing in fields and meadows, in the forest on the bark of decaying trees. In human places, specimens form large colonies; they grow in early April-May until October.
Varieties. Champignons have many varieties, but the most common is considered an ordinary mushroom, which can be found in park areas, gardens and vegetable gardens.
Doubles. It is often possible to confuse an edible mushroom with a false champignon. But you can distinguish it by a brown speck in the center of the hat.
Chanterelles
Description. Chanterelles are mushrooms that are difficult to confuse with other species. Distinctive features are concave hats and their wavy edges, up to 10 cm in diameter. There are yellowish and orange mushrooms with the smell of dried fruits.
Where and when does it grow? The chanterelle season begins in spring and ends at the end of November. Abundant fruiting occurs in July. Mushrooms are found in forests, especially conifers.
Varieties. The most popular varieties are considered to be an ordinary chanterelle, predominantly fleshy pulp and a yellow tint on the edges of the cap. There is also an edible gray fox, which has a hat with wavy edges and a recess in the center.
Doubles. Govorushka orange and poisonous olive olive omphaloth - two dangerous doubles of chanterelles.
Common chanterelle
Gray fox
Flywheel
Description. The flywheel has a convex or semicircular hat, 4-20 cm in diameter. It features straight edges, as well as the formation of a pillow-shaped shape as it ripens. There are semi-gold, dark brown, brown, as well as fissured mossoviks.
Where and when does it grow? You can meet the flywheel in July and until the end of October-November. Mushroom pickers set off in search of coniferous, deciduous and mixed forests. Mushrooms grow more often alone, forming mycorrhiza with linden, spruce, alder, beech, chestnut, hornbeam or pine. Most often found at the edges and forest glades. In the Voronezh region, you can meet mosses in the Shuber Sea.
Doubles. The bile or pepper fungus, which are similar in appearance, are considered to be doubles of the moss.
Yellow-brown flywheel
The flywheel is semi-gold
Fissure flywheel
Brown flywheel
The inedible bile fungus is considered to be the twin of the moss fly
Wake
Description. Due to the fact that there are several varieties of waves, they have a different color scheme. Young waves are dominated by bulging hats; as the mushroom ripens, they become hollow with a deep depression in the center. The diameter of the cap reaches up to 12 cm.
Where and when does it grow? More often, waves are found in forests and groves with a large accumulation of birches. It is popular to set off in search of mixed forests, starting hunting from August and continuing until September. In the Voronezh region, in the chalk forest, preserved in the Podgorensky district, which is located between the villages of Dukhovoye and Lower Karabut, waves are very common.
Varieties. Pink varieties are classified as fungus pink, white, and marsh.
Doubles. Doppelgangers of the waves are referred to as lactecs, who have similar external characteristics: a pinkish hat, but the absence of an edge on the edges.
White top
Pink pink
To the doubles of the waves, the poisonous mushroom is the milkman
Boletus
Description. In young boletus, a hemispherical hat, which takes the form of a pillow as it ripens, is 5-30 cm in diameter. The club-shaped leg reaches a height of 22 cm. Black or brown scales on the surface of the leg are a distinctive feature.
Where and when does it grow? Mushrooms grow under both aspen and birch, beech, oak, spruce, willow and poplar. Gather mushrooms in late June and until October. The most common crop place in the Voronezh region is Malyshevo.
Varieties. There are red, red-brown and white boletus. You can also find oak, pine boletus.
Doubles. You can confuse boletus with a bile fungus, also called mustard.
Red boletus
Oak boletus
Boletus pine
Boletus white
Boletus can be confused with inedible mustard
Boletus
Description. At a young age, the cap boletus has a white hat, which, as it develops, becomes dark brown, reaching a diameter of 18 cm. The hat is located on a white or gray leg of cylindrical shape. A distinctive feature - longitudinal flakes of dark gray on the surface of the legs.
Where and when does it grow? In the Voronezh region in Malyshevo, you can harvest a rich crop of brown boletus. They occur at the time of flowering bird cherry. The end of the harvest falls in mid-October.
Varieties. The most common species are common boletus (uniform reddish or brown hats) and marsh boletus (hat light gray or light brown in color, loose flesh).
Doubles. The edible mushroom is confused with a false boletus, characterized by a gray, pockmarked leg and a white-gray hat.
Common boletus
Marsh boletus
Confused edible boletus with inedible false boletus
Rizopogon
Description. Rhizopogon can be characterized by a rounded or tuberous form. Its main part develops underground. The diameter of the mushroom is 1-5 cm. The mushroom is grayish-brown in youth. As it ripens, it can change the tint to yellowish or olive-brown. To the touch, the mushroom has a velvety or smooth surface.
Where and when does it grow? In the Voronezh region, it is very rare to find ordinary rhizopogon growing in pine-oak and pine forests. Less common in mixed and deciduous forests.Mostly lives under coniferous trees, spruces and pines. Grows in small groups. The mushroom picking season is in June and lasts until October.
Varieties. The varieties of the fungus include pinkish rhizopogon and yellowish rhizopogon.
Doubles. Rhizopogon does not have toxic doubles.
Common Rhizopogon Mushroom
Pink Rhizopogon Mushroom
Yellow rhizopogon mushroom
Pipers
Description. The cross section of the tinder fungus is about 50 cm, while consisting of a huge number of branched legs, each of which has small and white hats, sometimes reaching up to 200 pieces 4 cm in diameter. The young polypore has a rounded shape of the hat, which eventually becomes flat-convex. The color of the hat is light brown or grayish brown.
Where and when does it grow? The most edible tinder growers are found in mixed forests, growing on tree trunks and stumps. Gather mushrooms from August to November.
Varieties. In the Voronezh region, you can meet the following types of tinder fungus:
- Scaly. Mushroom with open meaty hats, up to 30 cm in diameter. Have an elastic dense pulp.
- Umbrella. A specimen with flat, bright, rounded hats, which are pressed in the center, are collected in fruiting bodies, reaching up to 40 cm in diameter.
- Sulfur yellow. Fruit bodies are colored yellow-orange, reaching 50 cm in diameter.
Doubles. You can stumble upon a false tinder fungus, which in youth has a rounded, and in maturity, hoof-like body. The diameter of the hat varies from 20 to 26 cm. It has a matte, uneven surface in dark gray or black.
Tinder fungus scaly
Tinder fungus umbrella
Tinder funnel sulfur yellow
The tinder fungus is a false tinder fungus that is not used in food
Flake
Description. The mushroom flake prevails with a hat-cutaneous shape of the body of medium or large size. It differs in a hemispherical or bell-shaped hat in youth, flat-spaced in maturity. Thick flakes on the surface. On a cylindrical leg there are also scales.
Where and when does it grow? Flakes grow from July to October in large splices on birches, trunks and stumps of willow trees.
Varieties. The most common mollusk is ordinary and golden. This is a conditionally edible mushroom. Only hats are prepared.
Doubles. The double of the golden scale is the inedible ordinary scale, which is distinguished by protruding large scales and a rare smell.
Morel hat
Description. Morel cap - a mushroom characterized by a wrinkled cap-cap, 1-5 cm high and 1-4 cm wide. In young mushrooms, the cap is dark brown, with age it becomes lighter, acquiring a more yellowish tint. The cap grows to the mushroom leg only at the top. The length of the cylindrical leg varies from 6 to 11 cm.
Where and when does it grow? The mushroom grows in deciduous and mixed forests, starting from April-May. He likes to grow near streams, near lindens, birches and aspen, because with them the morel cap forms mycorrhiza.
Varieties. Morel hat is similar to morels. First of all, it differs by fastening to the leg to the top, as with many mushrooms, and not along the bottom edge, as in morel ordinary or conical.
Doubles. The mushroom is considered unique, due to which it is difficult to confuse with other instances, but it is extremely rarely confused with the lines.
Umbrellas
Description. The fungus has a hat-cutaneous structure of the fruit body. The diameter of the cap of some specimens reaches 35 cm, and the leg length is 40 cm. The young mushroom has an ovoid or hemispherical whitish shape. With age, the peel of the mushroom cap cracks, forming scales.
Where and when does it grow? It grows from mid-June to early November, preferably in bright, open forest areas, edges and clearings, in meadows and steppes.
Varieties. There are several types of umbrella mushrooms growing in the Voronezh region:
- White or field.
- Blushing or shaggy.
- Variegated or large.
Doubles. You can confuse umbrella mushrooms with smelly fly agaric, dark brown chlorophyllum, and lead-slag chlorophyllum.
Mushroom umbrella white
Mushroom umbrella blushing
Mushroom umbrella motley
Mushrooms umbrellas can be confused with the inedible mushroom Amanita stinky
Raincoats
Description. The fruit body resembles a ball or pear, prevails in a closed structure. Raincoats differ in dense skin, often have spikes that fall away with age. As the fungus ages, it becomes darker, forming inside the chambers containing spore powder. The young mushroom has a white, dense and elastic flesh.
Where and when does it grow? Raincoats begin to collect from the end of summer and in the autumn period. They grow along roads, on lawns, in the forest, in meadows. Most preferred are mixed and coniferous forests.
Varieties. These types of raincoats are distinguished:
- Giant. Reaches up to 50 cm in width and up to 7 kg of weight on average. It is characterized by a white or grayish tint in youth, brown in maturity.
- Pear-shaped. It grows on rotten wood in groups. It is found in pine forests. White and spiked.
Doubles. A double raincoat, which also has the shape of a ball, but it has more rigid skin and pulp, is considered to be a double of the mushroom.
Giant raincoat
Pear-shaped raincoat
The fungus double is considered a raincoat a poisonous false raincoat
Ginger
Description. The mushroom cap is light yellow or orange. You can find bluish-green or red mushrooms. The pulp and leg are orange. The round hat in diameter reaches 5-18 cm. The height of the hollow leg is up to 9 cm.
Where and when does it grow? It grows in the forest. In the Voronezh region, saffron milk cap found in the Soldier from mid-July to October. Mushrooms like conifers, grow near pines or larch trees.
Doubles. Pink wave, fragrant lactarius - false mushrooms.
Dubovik
Description. Dubovik is a mushroom that got its name due to the fact that it settles near oaks. It is characterized by a large pillow-shaped hat in young mushrooms and spherical in old specimens. Prevails shades from tan to gray-brown.
Where and when does it grow? They grow in deciduous groves, near oaks. Less commonly found near linden. Harvesting is from May to June.
Doubles. You can confuse the speckled oak with a poisonous satanic mushroom.
Gruzdy
Description. The diameter of the cap varies from 5 to 20 cm. Initially, the cap is flat-convex; in maturity, it acquires a funnel shape. Leg height - 3-7 cm.
Where and when does it grow? They grow on clearings, glades, edges. Look for mushrooms should be in mixed and coniferous forests, preferably near birch forests.
Varieties. There is a white breast with a milky white or yellowish hat with curved edges. There is also a black breast with an almost black hat and dirty greenish plates.
In the Long Forest, in the Voronezh region, loosely found.
Doubles. Edible mushrooms can be confused with conditionally edible varieties:
- pepper breast;
- felt breast (violin);
- oak;
- parchment;
- gray, lilac;
- gray pink;
- lilac gray.
Horned
Description. Horned - a unique mushroom that does not have a hat or a leg. It grows vertically branched tubules.
Where and when does it grow? Mushrooms grow in humid coniferous forests, on rotten fragments of trees, bark or directly on moss, on lingonberry meadows. Appear in August-early September.
Doubles. Yellow hornet is similar in appearance to golden yellow coral - they can be distinguished only under a microscope.
Flask lead gray
Description. The mushroom has a spherical shape, reaching a height of 1.5-3 cm, a diameter of 1.5-3.5 cm. The surface of the mushroom is white in color, inside is lead-gray. The flesh is brownish and friable. Porkhovka does not attract the leg, since you can notice it only by trying to tear the mushroom off the ground.
Where and when does it grow? Povorka grows in deciduous and coniferous forests on fruitful soils, along paths and forest roads, in meadows and pastures. The fruiting season lasts from June to September.
Varieties. A subspecies of the lead-gray powder is a blackish powder, characterized by a spherical or flattened body without a leg, with a diameter of 3-6 cm. As it grows older, the fungus becomes yellowish. After maturation of the spores, the outer shell is torn to throw them away, which leads to blackening of the fungus.
Doubles. Sometimes the powder is confused with an inedible mushroom with a false raincoat, which has hard black pulp and rough skin with warts.
Trick deer
Description. The deer is distinguished by a gray, brown or almost black hat, 4-25 cm in diameter. Young mushrooms have a bell-shaped hat, which over time becomes open with a small tubercle in the center. The pluteya usually has a gray or white cylindrical pedicle, 4-17 cm in height. The pulp is white, brittle.
Where and when does it grow? Mushroom grows on rotten trees of all types of forests, as well as on sawdust. Most preferably birch and pine. Harvesting occurs in early June and lasts until the end of August.
Doubles. In the plutea, the deer counterpart is Pozuar's whip, which has no distinct smell and grows on soft deciduous trees.
Spider Web
Description. At a young age, a spider web has a dirty, wide-bell-shaped hat with curved edges, as it grows older it becomes outstretched, sometimes with a wavy edge. It has a variable yellowish tint: first red-brown or ocher-brownish, then darker yellow-ocher. The length of the legs is 5-10 cm, the diameter is 1-2 cm. The shape is cylindrical, straight.
Where and when does it grow? The spiderweb grows in mixed and deciduous forests, aspen forests, in groups or singly. Mushroom picking begins in late July and ends in late September.
Doubles. There is a poisonous cobweb. The hat, with a diameter of 4-9 cm, is characterized by a conical shape, becoming flat outstretched. It features a reddish-orange or reddish-brown tint.
Common liverwort
Description. The common liverwort is a tongue-shaped mushroom, reaching 6 cm in thickness and 30 cm in diameter. As the edges grow, they sharpen. The mushroom is bright red, sometimes orange and brownish-purple. The short and stiff leg is eccentric.
Where and when does it grow? You can meet the mushroom in a forest strip, singly or in small groups. Settles on stumps and at the base of old oaks or chestnuts. Harvesting lasts from mid-July until the first frost.
Varieties. The similarity of the liverwort is comparable to polypore, which have a similar shape and structure.
Headman
Description. The dung beetle has a bell-shaped hat, fibrous pulp. The surface of the cap is covered with flakes. It has a fragile, thin, hollow inside leg. When ripe, the hat dissolves, forming a slurry or black spot in the shape of a ring in place of the fungus.
Where and when does it grow? Coprinus is a mushroom that grows on fertilized soils rich in plant remains. It occurs near rotting trees or on them, on stumps, near residential buildings, in city parks, on stumps. Often, dung beet grows directly in landfills, beds.
Varieties. There are several varieties of dung beetle found in the Voronezh region:
- Ordinary. The hat is covered with white scales. In young mushrooms - a cylindrical hat, which in adulthood opens, becoming bell-shaped. Diameter - up to 3 cm. When ripe, the hat becomes black.
- White. White flakes are located on the surface of the hat.
- Gray. In the middle of the gray hat there is a darker seal. There are small dark scales. The shape of the hat is bell-shaped.
Common dung mushroom
White dung mushroom
Gray dung mushroom
Chestnut mushroom
Description. Occasionally confused with porcini mushroom. The chestnut mushroom has a brown and hollow inside leg of cylindrical shape, thickened downward. It differs by a convex or rarely flat hat, 3-8 cm in diameter. There are brown and light brown specimens. The young mushroom has a fleecy, velvety surface.
Where and when does it grow? A chestnut mushroom with broad-leaved trees grows: chestnut, oak, beech. Chestnut rarely grows alone, more often found in small groups. Chestnut mushrooms begin to grow in July and bear fruit until November. You can find chestnut mushrooms in the Voronezh region in the village of Yamnoye.
Doubles. Often, a chestnut mushroom is confused with an inedible bile fungus growing in coniferous forests. The mushroom has a convex hat, 10 cm in diameter. The pulp is soft, thick, white.
Auricularia
Description. A distinctive feature of auricularia is the unusual shape of the cap, resembling the auricle, with a diameter of 11-12 cm. The color varies from red-brown to almost black. The mushroom's hat is smooth on the inside, and rough on the outside. Auricularia has a short leg. The mushroom fits snugly on the tree trunk.
Where and when does it grow? It grows on dead wood, at the base of trunks and on the branches of shrubs and deciduous trees. The most preferred places are those close to alder, oak, maple, elderberry. It grows in small groups from July to November.
Winter mushroom
Description. The winter mushroom has a hat 2-9 cm in diameter, honey-yellow in color. The surface is smooth, mucous. The height of the cylindrical, solid legs is 3-10 cm, the diameter is 1.5 cm. The color of the legs varies from light yellow to brown.
Where and when does it grow? Winter mushrooms grow in large groups from December to March. They grow on deciduous trees and stumps. Found in parks and gardens, on fruit trees, willow, aspen, linden, poplar.
Doubles. It is extremely rare that a winter fungus is confused with an inedible specimen - a spindle-leg collibia. The mushroom has a convex hat, 4-8 cm in diameter, has an irregular shape. The hue of the hat is reddish-brown, which over time becomes lighter. Leg height - 4-8 cm.
Amanita gray pink
Description. The fly agaric is gray-pink with a large hat, 8-20 cm in diameter. The hat is not only gray-pink, but also dirty reddish, less often reddish-brownish, covered with dirty gray flakes. The shape of the hat is first rounded ovate, then prostrate. The pulp is white, without taste or smell. The hat is located on the leg, 7-15 cm in height.
When broken, the flesh turns pink or red. The taste of mushroom after cooking is similar to chicken meat.
Where and when does it grow? The mushroom grows in bright deciduous and mixed forests from June to October. Amanita gray-pink forms mycorrhiza with deciduous and coniferous trees, especially with pine and birch. It grows singly or in small groups.
Doubles. Amanita gray-pink looks similar to a fly agaric panther: his hats are often also gray. But when cut, the fly agaric panther does not blush.
Poisonous mushrooms
In the Voronezh region there is a huge number of not only edible, but also poisonous mushrooms, which are very important to know about in order to avoid serious poisoning and personal injury.
Fly agaric
Description. Mushroom with a red hat with white spots and a whitish leg.
Where does it grow and when? In early July, active growth of fly agarics begins, which can be found in almost all forests of the Voronezh region.
Who can be confused with? Amanita practically has no analogues, but it is similar to a caesarean mushroom.
Death cap
Description. The grebe is distinguished by a flat or hemispherical grayish or greenish, sometimes an olive hat with smooth edges, 5-14 cm in diameter.
When and where does it grow? Pale grebe grows in any forest at the beginning of summer. It grows singly or in groups.
Who can be confused with? The counterparts of the pale toadstool are green russula and some types of champignons.
Champignon red
Description. Young red champignons are distinguished by a rounded hat, which later becomes wide-bell, 15 cm in diameter. On the surface of the cap there are small flakes. Poisonous mushroom is characterized by a white hat, which turns brown in the center, turns yellow when pressed. The fungus has a cylindrical white leg, up to 10 cm high and 1-2 cm in diameter.
Where does it grow and when? It grows in deciduous and mixed forests from July to September. Occurs occasionally in gardens, in meadows and fields, in parks and in places where edible champignons live.
Who can be confused with? Confused with ordinary champignon. The main distinguishing feature of redhead champignon is the smell of carbolic acid.
Thin pig (dirty mushroom)
Description. The thin pig is distinguished by a slightly convex hat and curled edges, 10-20 cm in diameter. In mature mushrooms, the hat becomes flat and slightly depressed, then funnel-shaped. An olive or gray-brown hat is located on the leg, 10 cm high and about 2 m in diameter. The leg has a smooth surface, and the color is the same as the hat, sometimes slightly lighter.
Where does it grow and when? Thin pig grows in deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests. It occurs in darkened, damp areas. The fruiting season lasts from June to mid-October.
Greenfinch
Description. Greenfinch is a fungus called rowadas green. The fungus has a dense body, at a young age the cap is fleshy and convex, and in mature it is open and flat, 15 cm in diameter. A greenish yellow or yellow hat is darker in the center. On the surface there are small scales. In wet weather, the surface becomes very sticky.
Where does it grow and when? The mushroom grows in coniferous and mixed forests. It always grows on sandy soils singly or in groups of 4-8 pieces. Often found next to a row of sulfur, preferring the same conditions. The collection season is September-mid-November.
Who can be confused with? Greenfinch can be confused with a not very poisonous, but inedible row of sultry, which is smaller and has a tall, thin leg. You can confuse with a pale grebe, which at a young age has a greenish hat.
False honey agaric (sulfur yellow)
Description. False mushroom sulfur-yellow is characterized by a strong hat, 7 cm in diameter. At a young age, the mushroom has a spherical hat, which, as it grows, spreads and acquires an umbrella-shaped bright yellow color with orange spots in the center. With a break, a yellow flesh is visible, emitting an unpleasant poisonous smell.
Where does it grow and when? The fungus grows in forest and mountainous areas in bunches or in small groups. Propagated on mossy stumps or decayed trunks of conifers or deciduous trees. False mushrooms grow from August to November.
Who can be confused with? You can confuse a false honeycomb sulfur-yellow with edible mushrooms - summer and autumn.
Waxed Talker
Description. The fungus is characterized by a convex hat at a young age, straightened with a wide tubercle in the center - in mature. It predominates with a cylindrical smooth leg, reaching a height of up to 3 cm. The hat has curved, turned edges. The talker has a waxish light cream or white, rather dense pulp with a pleasant smell.
Where does it grow and when? Waxed talker grows in mixed and coniferous forests singly or in small families. It prefers open, well-lit, grassy areas with sandy soils. The fruiting period falls from the end of July to the end of September.
Who can be confused with? Waxed talkers are often confused with edible hangman.
Entoloma spring
Description. Entoloma spring has a cone-shaped, half-open hat with a tubercle in the center, with a diameter of 2-5 cm. The hue varies from gray-brown to black-brown, with an olive shade. Hats are located on low legs, 3-8 cm long, 0.3-0.5 cm thick. The color of the legs is similar to the shade of the hat or slightly lighter.
Where does it grow and when? Poisonous mushroom grows on forest edges, less often in coniferous forests, preferring sandy soils. Fruits in mid-May to mid or late June.
Since the dates of early fruiting of the fungus, it is difficult to confuse the spring entoloma with other varieties.
Mushroom places of Voronezh region
In the Voronezh region, which is located in the forest-steppe zone, up to 500 species of a wide variety of mushrooms are found.
In the Voronezh region there are practically no spruce forests, therefore, pine rye, growing in pine forests, is considered the most common here. Therefore, you can look for mushrooms on the pine forest terraces of the Don, Voronezh and other rivers of the region. It also makes sense to look for an oilman.
Experts strongly recommend not to go to certain areas where poisonous mushrooms are often found:
- surroundings of the village of Somovo;
- afforestation in the territory of the Soviet district;
- territory of the hotel "Sputnik;
- the area of the village of Tenisty and the School of Police;
- surroundings of the village of Medovka;
- neighborhood of the village of Podgornoye and Yamnoe.
In the Voronezh region there is a huge amount of edible mushrooms that are used to prepare a wide variety of culinary dishes. But poisonous specimens can also be found, therefore it is important to be aware of the danger before heading out into the forest for a “silent hunt”.
Posted by
3
Ukraine. City: Kryvyi Rih
Publications: 110 Comments: 0