What is the main difference between an experienced mushroom picker and a beginner? An experienced collector distinguishes about a thousand different species of fruiting bodies growing in forests and meadows of its climatic zone. He knows the smell of edible and deadly poisonous mushrooms. He knows the places where they can grow, and the time is favorable for them. He also knows which mushroom turns blue on the cut, why this happens, and also the fact that some fruiting bodies emit milky juice - white or orange. He does not collect his crops on the side of roads and near industrial zones. After all, mushrooms absorb all heavy metals and toxic substances. Thus, even boletus becomes hazardous to health.
Are there edible and poisonous mushrooms?
Unfortunately, there is only one, but it does not guarantee that you will not put a grebee into your little basket. This is the so-called "bed of death." This is the name of the recess between the leg and the mycelium located in the ground, some mushrooms and toadstools. Neither smell (unpleasant in some edible species), nor taste (neutral in some poisonous species) can tell with certainty what is in front of you. The same applies to the sign when the mushroom turns blue on the cut. A beginner collector just needs to take a catalog and remember what mushrooms, chanterelles, honey agarics and butter look like, and how dangerous pale grebes, fibrils, fly agarics and a whole cohort of “false” ones that fake as edibles look like. And even better - a couple of times to go to the forest with an experienced person who will show and tell.
Why does the mushroom turn blue on a cut
Many ignorant people consider such a blueness as evidence of the toxicity of the find, and therefore do not take it into their bast basket. And in vain! A color change only means that an oxidation reaction occurs when it comes in contact with air. Mushroom flesh can not only turn blue, but also turn green, become black, red, brown. And also start to “bleed” - carrot-colored milky juice , which stands out at the break, repels inexperienced mushroom pickers from a delicious saffron milk cap.
What mushrooms turn blue on a cut
Very quickly it becomes a dark green fracture of boletus. Ginger, which in Russia is called the royal mushroom, and in Ukraine - the trump card (for the elegant red-orange color), also, when cut, it turns blue. The aspen mushrooms belonging to the first category change color when the hat is pressed and on the cut of the leg. Mushrooms of the highest category are not immune from color changes. Even in the glorious cohort of boletus, there are such. For example, a delicious Polish mushroom found in pine forests . The moss fly (also known as the swamp) turns blue on the cut. Mushrooms excellent in taste grow in the southern part of Russia and Ukraine in oak forests, acacia and chestnut gai, which also change color. They turn blue, green, black or brown. This is a speckled oak tree, chestnut. And the bruise turns blue with just a touch.
Unfortunately, poisonous mushrooms also change color. So, the deadly
satanic mushroom turns blue on the cut.
It is very similar to an ordinary boletus, therefore it causes many poisonings. You can recognize it by the reddish leg and orange pores on the hat. If you are frightened of a bluish or dark green color on a cut, touch it with your tongue:
inedible mushrooms are bitter.