White Volnushka - description of where the poisonousness of the fungus grows

For volnushka white or fluffy whitegrass, the place in the classification of mushrooms is allotted in the Russula family of the genus Mlechnik. For the snow-white outfit it is also called a moth. Having carefully studied the description of this mushroom and only once having seen it, you will not confuse it with another.

What does a white wake look like

The surface of the cap is fleecy, especially at the edges. Its diameter can be from 4 to 8 cm, but there are, although rarely enough, larger specimens in which the diameter reaches 12 cm. In the center the cap is pressed in, and the edges are tucked up until the mushroom is young. Then they unfold. If it grows in open space, most often it has a funnel shape.

The color on the cap depends on what area the mushroom grows in, it gets from a snow-white shade to pink, but regardless of color, always the most central part will be noticeably darker.Concentric zones are not very pronounced, but you can see a soft, blurry yellowish-red circles, resembling spots. You can learn that the mushroom is old by examining the cap: it acquires a yellow tint.

The pubescent skin is slightly rough to the touch. During rainy weather, it immediately becomes covered with slippery mucus.

The pulp of the white volushka is dense, but rather fragile, white, with a milky, plentiful caustic juice, which is also white, does not change its shade in the air. The flesh itself smells very nice, has a sweetish aftertaste.

The foot of a white wave is even and has a regular cylindrical shape. To the bottom it is narrowed, especially if the mushroom grows in the grass. Quite smooth to the touch, sometimes weakly pubescent. Growing up, the leg of the fungus becomes more and more cellular, then hollow, unlike the young with a solid leg, and becomes the same color with the cap.

If the mushroom grows:

1. In the open space, its leg is quite low, 2–4 cm tall.
2. In the thick grass - the height of the leg increases markedly, it can even reach 8 centimeters in length.

Leg thickness - 1-2 cm.

Habitats

Especially often the white wave can be found in deciduous or mixed forests. She loves to sit near the birch trees, especially the very young ones, because the mushroom pickers are looking for these mushrooms on the edges of birch groves and in coniferous birch plantations. These mushrooms grow well in places open, light and dry.

Begin to bear fruit in early August, their collection ends in late October, but it all depends on weather conditions. Usually, mushrooms are collected in stages, at first the harvest can be procured in August, and then in late September - early October.

A whitegrass grows in the northwestern and central regions of Russia, as well as in Siberia and the Urals, the North Caucasus.

Composition

These mushrooms contain all the vitamins that support health: A, B, C. There are amino acids here, for example, leucine, threonine and others. There is a lot of fiber in this mushroom.

Can I eat, and how to cook?

If you listen to the opinion of mycologists, you can find out that they consider this fungus to be slightly poisonous. All because of bitterness, which is contained in the pulp. Therefore, it is necessary to soak a white wave for a long time and boil it for a long time. If these conditions are not met, then even being in the marinade, after half a year, bitterness will remain in them.

Western culinary experts consider this mushroom to be completely unsuitable for eating, and in Russia it is readily salted and pickled, and even fried.

But before salting mushrooms, it is necessary to soak or blanch in good faith so that in the future there will be no irritation of the gastric mucosa. Soak should be in cold water for at least three days, and the salting process takes up to 50 days. If all the preparations are done correctly, the dish turns out to be delicious, tender and appetizing. When all conditions are not met, the product will be spoiled due to the remaining bitterness.

It was decided to rank the white wave by taste and consumer qualities of category II, that is, it is believed that it is a good quality mushroom. But mushroom pickers, if the year is fruitful for other mushrooms, most often almost never pay attention to the white-haired moth. Many are discouraged by bitterness in the pulp.But it is precisely this property that helps the fungus to protect itself from the voracious mushroom worms, from which other mushrooms cannot escape. This fungus has no counterpart inedible and poisonous.

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