« How to look for mushrooms?"- this is a question that beginner mushroom pickers very often ask during the mushroom season. Although experienced mushroom pickers know a lot, this article can also be very interesting for them.

You can look for mushrooms both in the forest and in the plantings. In this case, it does not matter whether you have experience, the main thing is to have a rough idea of ​​the mushroom search system, as well as find travel companions in advance, because searching for mushrooms alone is quite boring. In our article you will definitely learn how and where to collect mushrooms, and we will also tell you about folk signs, which will greatly facilitate the search for mushrooms.

Folk signs for searching for mushrooms

To find out where and how to properly look for mushrooms, we advise you to familiarize yourself with folk signs. Thanks to them, you will be able to collect mushrooms faster than other mushroom pickers, since you will know where to look for them. So, we present to you several folk signs for picking mushrooms during the mushroom season..

1. The appearance of chanterelle mushrooms in the forest means that in a couple of weeks the growth of porcini mushrooms will be in full swing. When you see chanterelles, remember their approximate location, and two weeks later you can look for porcini mushrooms or boletus mushrooms there.
2. If you really love boletus mushrooms, then the following sign will be useful to you: it is believed that the best harvest of boletus mushrooms can be collected in mid-September, and it is best to look for these mushrooms in coniferous forests. Butterflies love soil strewn with pine needles.
3. The appearance of small midges in the forest is a good sign for mushroom pickers. If you see swarming midges, it means it’s time to grab your friends and a basket so that you can all run for mushrooms together.
4. Another sign for finding porcini mushrooms is that they most often grow where fly agaric mushrooms can be found. Porcini mushrooms also love to be located where birch trees or fir trees grow.
5. Mold is also a good sign. Knowledgeable mushroom pickers say that if you see a large amount of mold on the ground in the forest, then after a week or two you can find a large number of milk mushrooms in this place.
6. If the night before Epiphany is quiet and starry, this means that in the summer mushroom pickers will find mushrooms all season long.
7. If with the beginning of autumn you see large cluster of butterflies above the fields, this means that now is a good time to search and collect mushrooms in the forest.

If you take into account these seven folk signs for searching for mushrooms, and also take travel companions with you, you will be able to collect full buckets of chanterelles, honey mushrooms, russula, porcini and other edible mushrooms. You should also remember that most mushrooms love moisture. If the summer is dry, then you are unlikely to be able to collect a large mushroom harvest.

Where to look?

Also, many are worried about the question: “Where to look for mushrooms?” This is what we will talk about now.

As usual, you need to look for mushrooms in close proximity to the trees. This could be a forest or a planting. Some mushrooms can even grow in fields, but most often their location is in forests.

When searching for mushrooms, it is very important to know that if the summer is too rainy, then the search for mushrooms must be carried out near sunny clearings, as well as in any places that are located away from trees. If the summer was very hot and dry, then you should look for mushrooms in the shade of trees. Mushrooms are collected very well in coniferous forests, where the ground is strewn with pine needles.

If you are going to look for mushrooms in an unfamiliar area, then first you need to go there for exploration. You will look for several “mushroom” places for yourself, where you will go immediately upon arrival, without wasting time exploring the area.

And now, having looked at folk signs for collecting mushrooms and the places in which to look for them, we will look at how to do it correctly.

How to pick mushrooms correctly?

If you want to learn how to properly search for and collect mushrooms, then the recommendations in our article will be very useful to you. We present to you some basic tips, by listening to which you will definitely be able to collect a full bucket of mushrooms.

You need to go mushroom hunting before sunrise, since at such times the mushrooms are much more visible.

Necessarily wear long pants and a long-sleeved shirt, because in the morning it is quite cold in the forest, and closer to dawn you may be bitten by mosquitoes. Shoes should also be closed and tight.

Don't forget to take with you water, since you can stay in the forest for a long time.

When collecting mushrooms, you must have with you knife. With its help, you should cut off the stem of the mushroom without injuring its root. It is believed that the integrity of the soil should not be disturbed, since next year a new mushroom will no longer be able to grow here.

When going to the forest to pick mushrooms, take with you bucket or basket, since with them there is a greater chance that the mushrooms will arrive home intact.

Pay attention to what mushrooms look like so as not to collect inedible ones.

By using our tips and taking a travel companion with you, you can be sure that you will find and bring home a huge amount of mushrooms. Do not forget that it is better to cut them with a knife rather than uproot them. In this case, next time you can collect several mushrooms in the same place. Learn more about mushroom picking in the video.

A special delicacy on any table is the porcini mushroom - not only tasty, but also healthy. It can be used not only for food, but also as a medicinal product. For a mushroom picker, it is important not to make a mistake in choosing - to look at the handsome one among the forest grass and be able to distinguish it from its skillfully camouflaged poisonous and inedible counterparts.

The white mushroom or boletus (Boletus edulis) belongs to the class Agaricomycetes, genus Boletus, family Boletaceae. It has many names: ladybug, bearbird, capercaillie, belevik and others. Classified as edible.

The cap is convex in shape, gradually becoming flatter, with a span of up to 30 cm. The outer part is usually smooth, but may have wrinkles and cracks in hot weather. During periods of high humidity with a small mucous layer, in dry times it is shiny.

The color of the porcini mushroom cap varies depending on the place of growth:

• among pine trees - closer to chocolate, perhaps pink edging;
• in a spruce forest - brown with a coffee, sometimes green tint;
• next to deciduous trees - light, light walnut, yellow ocher.

The pulp is dense, in newly emerged specimens it is light, turning yellow with age. The color does not change when cut. It has a weak taste and smell when raw. A special pleasant aroma spreads during cooking or drying.

The stem of the mushroom is 8-12 cm high, up to 7 cm thick. The shape is “barrel” or “club”, elongated in aging specimens, thickened at the base. The surface shades are brown with whitish or reddish tints. The reticular layer is light, most often located closer to the cap. Rarely is it mild or absent altogether.

The tubular layer is from light in young to yellowish and greenish in older individuals; it comes off easily from the flesh of the cap.

Distribution and collection season

They grow next to many trees, but most of all they love the “community” of pine forests, birch or oak groves, and spruce forests.

In the fall, the boron form friendly shares space with the green russula in the oak forest and with the chanterelle next to the birches, appearing at the same time as the greenfinch.

There is a high probability of finding such whites in pine trees that are 20-25 years old, or in a pine forest that is at least 50 years old and covered with moss and lichen.

The best temperature for mushroom growth is 15-18 degrees Celsius in the summer months, and 8-10 in September. Serious temperature changes and rain inhibit the development of mycelium. White hare grows best after minor thunderstorms and foggy, warm nights.

They like soils with the presence of sand and loam, without excess water. Peat bogs and swampy areas are excluded. They also do not like hot places, although they prefer good lighting.

You can meet the hare on all continents except Australia. It grows especially actively in Europe, northern America and even Africa. In Asia it reaches Japan and China. In Russian forests - almost everywhere, reaching the tundra and Chukotka, but is not found in the steppes. Doesn’t like to “climb mountains” too much.

Fruiting occurs solitary, closer to autumn days - in clusters.

Porcini mushrooms grow in seasons: in more temperate climatic latitudes - from mid-June to the end of September, the most mushroom time is from the fifteenth of August. Where it is warmer, it may appear by the end of May and not disappear until October.

Species diversity and description

Scientists have counted 18 forms among white hare, but the average amateur will not want to climb into such jungle. And it’s possible to meet some only on other hemispheres of the planet. Therefore, let’s take a closer look at what grows in the forests of Russia.

Spruce

The white spruce mushroom (Boletus edulis f. edulis) is large in size, up to 2 kg per specimen. The hat is chestnut-brown or “brick with a red tint”, in the form of a hemisphere, turning into a plane over time. The top is wrinkled and velvety to the touch. In young mushrooms, the edges are slightly turned inward.

The tubes are white, gradually appearing yellow-green. Leg height 6-20 cm, thickness 2-5. The mesh layer is located closer to the cap.

Distribution and collection time

Collection is possible from early June to early October in spruce-pine and mixed forests - wild and park. They love the proximity to spruce.

Oak

The porcini oak mushroom (Boletus quercicola) has a cap most often of a coffee-gray color, with possible light inclusions, with a diameter of 5-20 cm, fleshy and dense. With age, it gradually begins to wrinkle. As humidity increases, the surface becomes shiny and slightly slimy.

The leg is widened or club-shaped, 6-20 cm high and 2-6 cm in diameter. The inner part is more fragile than that of other species.

Where and in what season is it collected?

Oak porcini mushrooms grow from May to October next to oak trees and mixed vegetation in the middle and southern zone of the center of the country, the forests of the Caucasus, and Primorye. They spread widely, sometimes in clusters.

Birch

Birch porcini mushroom (Boletus betulicola) – the fruiting body is much larger than that of its other counterparts. The cap reaches 5-15 cm in diameter, but at times grows to 25-27 cm. The color is light - from white to light coffee, it can wrinkle slightly and crack in the heat.

The tubes are white, with the decay of the mushroom comes a creamy tint. The interior is dense and remains white when dried. The leg is barrel-shaped, white-brown, the mesh is closer to the cap, 5-13 cm high, 1.5-4 cm wide.

Distribution and collection time

The white birch mushroom is present throughout the forests of the European part of Russia, the middle latitudes of Northern and North-East Asia, the Caucasus, and the tundra zone - among the northern birch forests. Any soil (but does not take root on peat bogs), the main thing is that birches or at least aspens grow nearby.

You can find it from early summer until October. Some beauties can survive until the first cold weather. Trim carefully 1.5-2 cm from the ground. You need to look for birch porcini mushrooms on the outskirts of the forest and along nearby roads.

Pine

The white pine mushroom (Boletus pinophilus), also called boletus, looks like a “fat mushroom.” The height of the leg is from 5 to 16 cm, with a diameter of 4-10 cm, thicker at the base. The surface is completely “enveloped” in a reddish or light brownish mesh.

The diameter of the cap is 5-25 cm. The general color is dark brown, there may be variability in reddish shades, the outline is slightly pink, in newly grown ones it is closer to light. The lower part is white-yellow, darkening with increasing age. The flesh at the break is white, under the skin it is brown with a red tint, with a weaker structure than that of the white birch mushroom.

Where and in what season is it collected?

Borovaya porcini mushroom is collected in the Siberian taiga, coniferous forests of the western half of the European part of the country and in the northeast from July to the 15th of October. Prefers sandy pine forest soils, old forests with mosses and lichens. Can be found in forests mixed with pine.

It is important to collect before the tubular layer acquires a greenish tint - old specimens can lead to poisoning!

Picking mushrooms - how to do it right?

When going to the forest, you need to understand where, when and how to collect porcini mushrooms. It is preferable to start “hunting” for them in July and August. They especially scatter across the soil after brief thunderstorms and warm fogs at night. In summer, the boletus mushroom grows for 6-9 days, in autumn – 9-15.

It is advisable to come to the forest before the sun has risen, when the white mushroom is clearly visible. Move slowly, carefully examining the ground. Especially places with sand and loam, where the soil does not flood. When the summer is damp, it is worth looking at a distance from trees, on hills and in places well lit by the sun. If the season is dry, whites hide near the trees, where the grass is thicker. They love to live next to morels.

The best specimens for collecting are those with a cap diameter of approximately 4 cm. Boletus is loved by various kinds of pests, so you need to look out for them carefully, especially in the cap. Be sure to cut it into pieces and remove the wormholes. Within 10 hours, the porcini mushroom must be processed (placed for drying, salting, fried, etc.), otherwise most of the beneficial properties will be lost.

Collection rules

• cut off the porcini mushroom carefully, without damaging the mycelium;
• can be unscrewed;
• clean from possible pests (although it is better to take whole ones);
• place in a collection container with the cap down;
• if the legs are high, lay them sideways;
• leave overripe and questionable specimens on the ground;
• do not trample.

Healthy porcini mushrooms are not afraid of frost, so they can be harvested even after frost. After thawing, they do not lose their taste.

Nutritional quality

Freshly picked porcini mushroom has a calorie content of 34 kcal per 100 g of mass, dried - 286 kcal. Nutritional value – 1.7 g fat, 1 g carbohydrates, 3.5 g protein per 100 g weight. Also disaccharides and saturated fatty acids.
Praised for excellent taste in any form. The special nutritional value is that it makes the stomach work actively.

90% of the weight is water, the remaining 10 is divided into proteins, fiber, carbohydrates, minerals and fats.

It contains the most important microelements - iodine, copper, manganese and zinc. Vitamins – PP, C, B1, A. 22 amino acids. The amount of protein depends on the type, age of the mushroom (the younger the better), place of growth and method of preservation. Dried porcini mushrooms are especially good at preserving proteins.

Digestibility of mushroom proteins

It happens more slowly than in animals, since the proteins of the fungus are enclosed in special walls that “do not penetrate” the enzymes of the digestive tract. To improve absorption by the body, mushrooms need to be well chopped, boiled or fried.

Usage

White mushrooms without wormholes are allowed to be eaten in any form - dried, boiled, fried, salted, pickled and fresh. When dried, they do not become dark, leaving a pleasant forest aroma. The sauce goes great with meat and rice. Powder from such mushrooms can be used to season various dishes. Italians love them very much, adding them raw to the ingredients of a salad with Parmesan cheese, seasoning with oil, spices and lemon juice.

Dried mushrooms can be stored for 1 year by placing them in paper bags. The air temperature should be fixed and moderate, and regular ventilation is required.

The benefits and harms of porcini mushroom

Porcini mushrooms are both beneficial and harmful depending on their human use.

Beneficial features

• in pharmaceuticals – treatment of mastopathy, oncology, angina pectoris, tuberculosis;
• strengthen the immune system;
• improve the condition of eyes, hair and nails;
• are a preventative against anemia and atherosclerosis;
• when used externally – promotes rapid healing of wounds.

Harm

• collected near roads and industrial enterprises - absorb heavy metals and toxic substances;
• if stored improperly, porcini mushrooms can cause serious stomach upset, especially in children;
• Excessive consumption of dried mushrooms can cause obesity;
• use porcini mushroom with caution in patients with liver and kidney problems.

Mushroom look-alikes

A serious problem is created by dangerous doubles of the porcini mushroom. To distinguish the porcini mushroom from false poisonous and inedible mushrooms, use the table below.

	Porcini	Satanic (false white mushroom)	Gall (bitter)
hat	from red-brown to almost white	grayish-white, coffee shades or olive	light brown shade
Leg	light mesh layer	yellowish-red with mesh pattern	dark mesh layer
Tubular layer	white or cream in young and greenish in old	reddish-orange, turns blue when pressed	white, later pink
Pulp	dense, odorless	dense with an unpleasant odor	soft with a pleasant mushroom smell
Behavior at fracture and shear	color does not change	slowly turns red, then turns blue	turns pink
Edibility	edible	poisonous	inedible

It is clear that poisonous and inedible mushrooms are in many ways similar to porcini mushrooms, but upon closer inspection they can still be distinguished. An additional look at the external condition will help - false ones have an impeccable appearance.

Symptoms of doppelgangers poisoning, first aid

In case of poisoning in an adult, serious symptoms last up to 3 days. These are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and headache. But due to the unknown impact of poisons, psychogenic reactions are real, including hallucinations, absolute loss of self-control and memory, and even lethargic sleep or death.

As soon as symptoms arise, immediately rinse the stomach and take the poisoned person to the hospital or call an ambulance. The effects of doppelgangers mushrooms, especially Satanic mushrooms, have been little studied and delaying first aid can be fatal.

Carefully compare the appearance of the specimen you come across on a “quiet hunt” with the description of the porcini mushroom, as you remember it and using the photos given in the article. Place only those in your cart that you are completely sure of. And then the beauties brought home will delight all gourmets with the amazing aroma and taste of forest gifts.

The mushroom season begins in July, unfolds in full force in August-September and continues in October, until the onset of frost on the soil. If there was enough moisture in the summer and there were warm nights, then, as a rule, the harvest is rich. In a good year, with a non-dry summer and a long, warm autumn, mushroom season can delight lovers of quiet hunting for 4 - 5 months.

Mushroom pickers are a special people. Forest people, they are like real hunters, ready to climb into the thicket of the forest in any weather, they know their hidden places, protect mushroom groves and clearings from the invasion of tourists and follow all the rules of the forest code: take what you find, but save reproduction for the future. Real mushroom pickers have special vision, even instinct, they know where the objects of their hunt are hidden, they find them where a simple amateur will pass and not notice anything attractive.

The mushroom picker's equipment is well known - rubber boots, thick trousers, a long jacket, preferably with a hood, and a mandatory hat. This ammunition will protect you from ticks, and from annoying mosquitoes, and from branches in the thicket, and will help you not get wet in the rain or in swampy areas. In addition to clothing, the obligatory accompanying items for a mushroom picker are a basket or a basket, as the most successful container for delivering mushrooms from the forest home, a small knife so that you can cut a mushroom and see if it is wormy, and a digging stick, a kind of “mushroom detector”, with the help of which is convenient for stirring up leaves or moss at the foot of trees.

When going into the forest, it is worth considering that the copses along highways can be mushroom places, but the mushrooms will absorb all the impurities of the environment. And along well-trodden paths near dachas or villages, the myceliums are most likely trampled or littered, alas, this often happens. Therefore, it is worth choosing forest areas that are located away from holiday villages and roads. It is best to go with a local guide who knows the forest and is well versed in it, because it is important not to end up in a swamp or impassable forest jungle, and to return home safe and sound.

The most productive places for mushrooms are those where humidity is maintained and not too dark. Therefore, dense spruce forests, where the soil surface is heavily shaded by the wide paws of spruce trees, as a rule, do not abound in mushrooms at all. Also, open glades with thick tall grass and the banks of reservoirs are also not mushroom places.

Each mushroom has its own preferences and chooses sites for mass growth.

Boletus or porcini mushroom

White mushrooms, they are boletus, love pine forest (hence the name - boletus) or mixed forest, grow in moss or in the roots of mature pines, can settle in hazel groves or in places where there are a lot of ferns. Young boletus mushrooms are often covered with compacted leaves, so that only the experienced eye of a mushroom picker can see an inconspicuous tubercle, and next to it there is another and another. White mushrooms do not grow in colonies, usually one or two mushrooms at a time, but in a few square meters you can collect a whole basket. The following sign also works: if you find a fly agaric, it means there may be a boletus nearby. The most valuable are young white ones with dense white flesh and an unopened cap that fits around a barrel-like stem.

Butter

Butter They love more open places, growing in young pine trees or thinned mixed forests. This mushroom is called an oil can because it is covered with a slippery, oil-like film. Butterflies can peek out with their caps from short grass even where there are large fields. These are one of the first mushrooms to inhabit the sites of former fires. A young butterdish is a mushroom picker's success and can be pickled and fried any way, but old butterdishes fall apart in your hands like rotten firebrands.

Chanterelles

Chanterelles They grow in forest clearings near bushes or old stumps, but not on the stumps themselves, but in the ground. This golden-red fungus with a concave cap, lamellar at the bottom, and dense pulp is never wormy and most often grows in a large family, so you can immediately pick up plenty. Chanterelles always turn out crispy and dense when pickled and fried.

Autumn honey fungus

Honey mushrooms- woody mushrooms, so you can find them in old deciduous forests, where trees have been cut down or fallen naturally and stumps have appeared. Honey mushrooms populate the entire stump; they can live on lying trunks; they can also be found on living trees, which are destined to die soon, because a colony of honey mushrooms will quickly turn the wood into dust. Honey mushrooms grow in large broods. One family of honey mushrooms can fill a fairly large basket to the top. Honey mushrooms love damp, gully places; if there is one such place where several families of honey mushrooms grow, then you won’t need to look for more mushrooms, there will be nowhere to put them.

boletus

Boletus

Boletus And boletus- mushrooms of deciduous and mixed forests. They grow, as their name suggests, in the roots of birch or aspen. These mushrooms are elegant, especially the boletus, whose reddish-orange cap is always visible from the grass. These mushrooms on high legs are quite noticeable, as if they were not hiding in the forest foothills.

Russula- the most common and uncomplicated mushroom. It grows everywhere, even along paths, as long as the humidity is high. Some mushroom pickers don’t even consider it a noble mushroom, because... Russulas quickly become wormy, the flesh of the mushroom is loose and weak. However, young russulas are very cute; their caps have the entire mushroom color palette: from pale yellow to brown, from pink-lilac to brick red. Russulas are only suitable for frying; the main thing is to carry them without breaking them into small pieces.

Happy mushroom hunting!

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At the end of August and September, mushroom pickers come out into the forests. Fans of this business note that the main thing is the process, during which you can enjoy the smells of trees and moss, birdsong, and warm air. At the same time, hardly anyone would like to leave with an empty basket. So that you know where to look for mushrooms, we have prepared some tips for you.

1. Learn to distinguish between edible and inedible mushrooms

A good mushroom picker, first of all, knows which mushrooms to put in his basket. Before your trip to the forest, carefully study the information about edible and inedible mushrooms. Many dangerous mushrooms may look tasty or appear attractive. A mistake will cost you dearly. Learn to distinguish edible mushrooms from inedible ones.

2. Determine the route

It is necessary to determine in advance where you will go for mushrooms. Experienced mushroom pickers set aside a separate day for exploration and come to the forest in search of good places.

However, the best way from time immemorial is word of mouth. It is worth asking advice from those who regularly pick mushrooms. Remember your school biology course: we eat the fruiting bodies of mushrooms, and they grow on mycelium (mycelium), an underground network that extends over several square meters. Therefore, every year you need to return to the same good places for the collection.

For useful information, you can contact sellers at markets, grandmothers, neighbors, and users of local forums. Remember which of your friends had photos of mushrooms in their feeds? Don’t worry if you’ve already collected everything in one place and you leave with nothing. The mycelium remains, and within a week the mushroom manages to appear, grow and grow old.

3. Wake up early

On mushroom picking days, it is recommended to become a morning person and get up early. The first reason is that it is better to walk through the forest in mushroom picker clothes before the heat arrives. In addition, mushrooms shiny with dew are easier to spot in the grass and leaves. Thirdly, popular places should be explored among the first, so that when you arrive, all the mushrooms are left are stems.

4. Prepare your equipment

Shoes for searching for mushrooms should be comfortable. It is recommended to choose boots with thick soles so that you do not have to worry about sharp knots. Running shoes, with membranes, mesh and ventilation, will allow moisture to pass through very quickly if it has recently rained or morning dew has collected.

Be sure to take a hat. Other clothing can be chosen depending on the weather and situation. The better you hide the body, the less insects, sharp branches and other features of nature will upset you.

You will definitely need a knife to cut the mushrooms. By the way, it is not at all necessary to cut them off, but it is more convenient: you will not accidentally damage the leg.

A knife can also be useful to find a stick. If you do look for mushrooms, a stick will be needed to rake the leaves without bending towards the ground each time.

Take plenty of water and drink it regularly if you don't want to pay for the walk with a headache from dehydration. Also don't forget the basket. Unlike a bag, it will help prevent the mushrooms from being crushed or broken. Buckets will block the air supply, and this will also affect the quality of the collected mushrooms.

5. Use scientific mushroom hunting charts

No matter how strange it may seem, a scientifically based technique will help you search for mushrooms. A.I. Semenov collected information back in the Soviet years and compiled it into a system. What to do if you just came to the forest?

The answer to the question of how to pick mushrooms correctly depends on what kind of forest you are going to. If the trees were specially planted by a person, then you can walk according to the “comb” pattern, when you focus on even rows of trunks and do not miss a single meter of area.

There is a more complicated option: a comb with a ledge, but in the forest you are unlikely to check your route down to the tree. Just take this scheme into account.

You can also explore the forest using a “wave” or “zigzag” pattern. It is recommended to walk this way if there are few trees.

At the edge of the forest next to the clearing, it is customary to look for mushrooms using the stretched spring method in order to explore the space around each tree.

Start exploring the forest in a zigzag pattern. Take your time, enjoy nature, this way you will cover a larger area and will not miss the mushroom.

When you find the first one, place any beacon (stick or basket) near this place and walk in a spiral around it.

You can walk the path along either an unwinding or a twisting spiral.

If you go searching in companies, then combine methods. While one person is exploring the space at the edge of the forest, another person is moving along the same course, but along a zigzag path and a little further into the forest.

Schemes from the site mycology.su

6. Folk signs will tell you how to look for mushrooms correctly

Folk wisdom, accumulated over centuries, will tell you how to look for mushrooms correctly. For example, it is believed that if chanterelles appear in the forest, then in a few weeks porcini mushrooms will begin to grow in full swing. Remember where you found the chanterelles, and come there for porcini mushrooms or boletus mushrooms in two weeks. These mushrooms love to grow near birch and fir trees.

It is recommended to look for boletus in coniferous forests. These mushrooms love soil dotted with pine needles. Mushroom pickers consider the appearance of small midges in the forest to be a good omen and a sign of a large mushroom harvest.

Oddly enough, folk wisdom considers mold a good omen. If you notice a lot of mold on the ground, then in a week or two you will find a large number of milk mushrooms in this place.

A large cluster of butterflies over the fields at the beginning of autumn indicates a large harvest and the right time to search.

7. Do not delay processing

Fresh mushrooms do not last long. Tubular ones (boletus, boletus and boletus) can be kept in the refrigerator for three days, lamellar ones (milk mushrooms, chanterelles, honey mushrooms) - 1-2 days longer. Then - for processing.

But even in these few days, you will lose some of the mushrooms if you keep them together. If you can't immediately clean and store everything you've collected, place your finds in an even layer in a cool, dark place to keep them away from mold and insects.

Where is the best place to look for boletus and porcini mushrooms? Characteristic signs of mushroom glades of these mushrooms. (10+)

Boletus (Porcini mushroom)

Boletus is a giant mushroom and a tasty prey for any mushroom picker. This mushroom is notable not only for its taste, but also for its size. Usually the diameter of Borovik's cap does not exceed 30 centimeters. But there have been cases when huge white mushrooms were found. The hat's diameter exceeded 50 centimeters. The mushroom was half a meter high, and the circumference of the cap reached almost two meters! That's a "catch"!

The color of the Boletus cap can vary from white to dark red or yellow. Usually, the surface of the cap is dry and matte, but after rain it can be moist or even slimy.

Where can you most often find white mushroom? What secret do you need to know to find it? Mushrooms, and White mushrooms are no exception, prefer damp and shady places. But sometimes such a “catch” can be found at the edge of the forest or near a well-trodden path. Boletus prefer deciduous or mixed forests. You can look for them under birch or spruce trees.

There are some signs by which you can look for Borovikov. Plants have a property called allelopathy. This is the ability of plants to release certain substances into the ground. For some plants such substances are beneficial, but for others they are harmful.

Therefore, plants create symbiosis - that is, in nature, sets or combinations of plants are formed that help each other grow, protect and nourish each other. If you know the plants with which the White mushroom is “friends,” you can easily find the mushroom itself.

For example, the white mushroom gets along well with heather, fly agarics, blueberries or white mushrooms. If you find “friends” of the White mushroom in the forest, it may be somewhere nearby. This way it is much easier to look for mushrooms, because fly agarics themselves “catches” the eye, and Bely’s other satellites are not very small and are easy to spot.

Unfortunately, an inexperienced mushroom picker can easily confuse the White mushroom with the so-called Mustard or gall mushroom. It is not poisonous, but has a very unpleasant taste. It is very bitter and can ruin the entire dish prepared from Boroviki. May cause slight discomfort. The gall mushroom is similar in appearance to the White mushroom. It grows much smaller in size. The diameter of the cap rarely exceeds 12 centimeters. Both the cap and the stem are very similar to the White mushroom.

It can be difficult to distinguish these two mushrooms by sight. They are very similar. To distinguish them, you can cut the mushroom and touch the cut on the stem with the tip of your tongue. If it tastes bitter, it means the mushroom is inedible.

In terms of taste, porcini mushroom belongs to the first category. It is very nutritious, its taste is rich and the mushroom is well absorbed by the human body.

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