Mlechniki or, as they are called, milk mushrooms have a huge variety of species. Among them are edible, conditionally edible and inedible. In order to understand which mushrooms can be collected, and which can be dangerous, you need to understand their types - this is further in the article.
Milky white
White grudge conditionally edible. In the diameter of its cap can grow up to 8 centimeters. It is flat in shape, and in the middle is a pronounced funnel. The edges are bent and sharp. White skin is covered with mucus, so it is slippery and smooth. Its color is light gray, sometimes with a brownish tinge. The foot can reach a height of 7 centimeters and 3.5 cm in width. By itself, it is thick, hard and easily broken, has a cylindrical shape, which tapers closer to the cap. It is whiter than a hat in color.
The flesh of this variety of white crayfish has a faint apple smell and is almost tasteless.
The white crab grows only in the forest. The collection period of these mushrooms begins in August and ends in September.
Important! Milk can not be eaten without special treatment. This can cause severe poisoning.
Pale milky
Mushroom is considered to be inedible. Pale-sticky gruzd has a small hat that grows up to a maximum of 5 centimeters in diameter. Forms a funnel, straightens to the edges and then descends. The skin is predominantly colored dark yellow, slippery and smooth; if pressed, it becomes dark. The plates descend quite a bit to the leg, are placed close and rather narrow. The foot of a crawfish in centimeters can be of such dimensions: in height up to 6 and up to 1.5 in width. It is slightly twisted, rough and tapers down. Usually painted in a color that is lighter than the cap.
The flesh is predominantly white, but when it comes into contact with air it almost instantly turns yellow. It tastes quite spicy, even burning, with an apple smell.
There is a pale-sticky mold in the forests where spruce prevails. You can meet him from July to September.
Read also about other types of uterus: aspen, black weigh.
Bitchy milky
Mushroom is considered to be inediblehowever, it is used in salted and pickled form. The cap of a bitter gnarl can be, as a rule, no more than 6 centimeters in diameter. In the middle creates a funnel, then a little convex, and to the edges becomes straight. If you touch the skin, it seems smooth and dry. The cap can be colored from brown to red-brown with a touch of ocher. Descending plates are located close to each other, they are quite thin and straight. Leg shape resembles a mace, reaches 6 centimeters in height and 0.5 centimeters in width. To the touch it is smooth and brittle, the color does not differ from the cap.
The flesh to taste is sharp, loose, without a specific smell. The color is predominantly white and only sometimes can be cream.
Bitter milk grows in any forests, and it is usually harvested in July and August.
Important! Mlechniki is considered a "heavy" product for the digestive system. They are not recommended to use more than three hundred grams per day.
Wood crab
The wood sink belongs to conditionally edible mushrooms. The cap is usually large, reaching a diameter of 10 centimeters. It has a folded form at the beginning, then straightens, the edge is sharp and smooth. The skin of the fungus is usually covered with wrinkles, dry, velvety to the touch. Painted most often in dark brown, less common black and umbrellas. The plates are mostly descending, have a white color. The foot reaches a height of 10 centimeters and only 1 wide. To the touch velvety, solid, painted in the same color as the cap.
The structure of the pulp varies from fairly dense to loose. Taste is not very expressive: it either has no taste, or a little sweet. If you make a cut, the flesh turns red.
There is a growing mass of coniferous or mixed forests on the ground or a tree. The collection period begins in July and lasts until October.
Some types of lacquers for bright color are called mushrooms. These mushrooms can be salted for the winter.
Mlechnik burning-milky
Hot Milky conditionally edible. The diameter of his cap can reach 6 centimeters. Usually it is smooth, and the color is brown or yellow. The hat is convex, with a funnel in the middle, a little mucous to the touch. The plates under the cap are located from top to bottom close to each other and often. The pulp of the crab is white, dense, almost tasteless. A special feature is the juice of the fungus, which is characterized by a pronounced smell and a very burning taste.
The stem of the hot-milky body reaches a maximum of 5 centimeters in height, and its width is 5 times smaller. At the base it is widest, tapers closer to the ground. The color of the leg is the same as the cap, in rare cases it may be a little lighter.
It lives on the soils that contain a lot of clay. The favorite place of growth are broad-leaved, mixed forests. You can find a hot-milky gruzdya from the beginning of August to October under large trees.
Mlechnik yellowish-brown
Yellowish-brownish mist is attributed to conditionally edible mind The hat is brown-carrot in color, not more than 4 centimeters in diameter. By itself, it is fleshy, has a papillary tubercle, which is bent, and later straightens. The edge of the cap is smooth, smooth and pointed at the end. The skin of the fungus is usually dry and smooth. The plates are often and close, narrowish, cream-colored. The leg reaches 5 centimeters in height and 0.6 centimeters in width. Most often has a club-shaped, brittle. The touch is smooth, hollow inside, painted the same way as a cap.
The pulp of the above-mentioned mushroom is distinguished by its sparse taste, loose and almost does not smell.
Yellowish-brownish grows in the forest of any type. A favorite place is the rhizome of pine. It grows in August and October in small groups.
Did you know? Salty grudge very effective in the fight against warts and skin inflammations.
Milky golden-milky
This kind of loading is poisonous. Its cap can be up to 8 centimeters in diameter. In the middle of her funnel, it is dense in texture, cream, often with blurred brown spots. The plates are thin, frequent on the entire surface of the cap. The flesh is white, mostly sharp, dense texture. The foot reaches 8 centimeters in height, about a centimeter in width. It is in the form of a mace, it feels fragile, dry and loose to the touch. Most often found in cream shades.
Such a crab grows from August to October in a deciduous forest.
Mlechnik red-brown
Scientists refer to the red-brown gruel as edible. It is distinguished by a red cap, which diameter is about 8 centimeters. The cap itself is flat, fleshy and depressed, with a papillary tubercle. At first it can be folded, but later it straightens, becomes sharp, sometimes acquires a short-ribbed edge. At first, the skin of the top of the fungus is smooth, sticky, and later becomes dryish and rough. If you squeeze its surface, then blue or dark spots appear. The plates are placed tightly and reddish-cream in color, rarely ocher-pink.
A special feature of the pulp is that at first it is sweetish, and later becomes bitter. By itself, it is dense. Leg red-brown gruzdy reaches 4 centimeters in height, up to 0.5 centimeters in width. The shape resembles a mace, cylinder. The texture of the leg is hard and smooth, and the color is the same as a cap, or a little lighter.
The usual place for the growth of red-brown wetlands is a mixed or coniferous forest. Their collection begins at the end of June and lasts until September inclusive.
Did you know? There is a mushroom that whistles when it releases spores. It is called the Devil's Cigar.
Lich purple
This type of crawlers belongs to edible mushrooms. The size of the cap reaches 15 centimeters. A characteristic feature is a pronounced funnel in the middle, which is aligned to the edges. The edges are sharp and slightly curved to the ground. It feels like a dark brown or brown cap is smooth, sticky. Thin plates descend smoothly to the leg, often and close to each other, cream or light brown. When damaged, they turn purple. The leg grows up to 7 centimeters in height and up to 2.5 centimeters in width, cylindrical, tapers to the ground. To the touch dry, firm and durable. It is not different in color from the cap, and you can see brown stripes on it.
The taste of the pulp is distinguished by bitterness and sharpness, it is white or creamy in color, and if broken it becomes mauve or light lilac.
Purple poppy grows in all forests except conifers. The collection lasts three months from the beginning of August.
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Mlechnik wet
This kind of loading inedible. The cap is flat, slightly convex closer to the edges, it can be up to 10 centimeters in diameter. Slippery and smooth to the touch. Painted mainly in dirty gray or gray with brown color. The plates descend smoothly, placed close together, brittle. When pressed, change color to lilac-purple. The leg has characteristic yellow spots, resembles a cylinder, hollow inside. To the touch, this part of the fungus is rather smooth, firm and slippery, covered with mucus.
The flesh is white, different manifested bitter-spicy taste. When breaking in the air, it immediately becomes purple.
Wet bulky loves moisture mixed and coniferous forests, where it occurs throughout the autumn.
Milky meat-red
This grudzh belong to edible species. It is distinguished by a large bright red hat, reaching a diameter of 10 centimeters. By itself, the cap is dense, with a funnel and wavy, smooth edges. At the beginning they are straight, but later acquire a concave shape. The skin of the crawfish is very slippery, smooth, shiny, painted in red or brown-violet color, sometimes spotted. Descending plates are often placed close to each other, they are thin and brittle. The leg of this mlechnik reaches 6 centimeters in height, and 1.5 in width. Most often, these mushrooms are found with cylindrical legs empty inside, sometimes narrowed closer to the ground. To the touch they are hard and very slippery, but smooth, identical in color to the cap. Sometimes there is spotted color.
Pulp dense texture, white or brown. Differs in excessive sharpness and very strong smell, characteristic for mushroom umbrellas.
Meat-red soil prefers to live in deciduous forests, rarely grows in coniferous or other. Mushroom pickers begin to hunt him in mid-summer and finish in October.
Sub-loads, or dry milk mushrooms, should be attributed not to the cage, but to russula.
Peppered milky
Pepper load can be safely to eat. His white and rather large hat reaches a diameter of 15 centimeters. Usually it resembles a funnel, pressed to the middle, then becomes flat to the edge and lowers. To the touch the skin is dry and smooth, mostly rough in the middle. Plastinochki descend to the leg, placed very close to each other, brittle and thin, painted exclusively in white. The leg of the fungus reaches 8 centimeters in height and 2 centimeters in width. Very firm to the touch, smooth, in the shape of a cylinder, tapers to the ground.
The white or creamy flesh is very sharp, its color does not change when crushed.
It is rare to find one peppery gruzdya: as a rule, they grow in groups. They prefer to live in any forests except conifers from mid-summer to mid-autumn.
Milky gray
This mushroom belongs to inedible. The cap reaches a diameter of 6 centimeters. In form, it is first flat, then straightens, to the edge becomes sharp. It differs from others in that it has a scaly skin. It is rough and dry, painted in terracotta or ocher-pink color with splashes of gray scales. The plates descend to the pedicle, located close to each other, rather thin. The foot reaches 7 inches in height and 1 in width. The shape resembles a cylinder that expands closer to the ground. To the touch hard and fragile, white.
The flesh is slightly yellow or whitish, slightly bitter in taste and pungent, the smell is not very pronounced.
Gray gruzd grows in August-September in the forests where there is a lot of alder.
Before you go on a "quiet hunt", familiarize yourself with edible, conditionally edible and poisonous types of mushrooms.
Milky lilac
Lilac gruzd belongs to the category conditionally edible. Its flat cap can grow up to 8 centimeters in diameter, has a smooth and dry skin, sometimes there are scales. The skin is lilac-pink, fade to solid. Flap-colored flaps of the cap smoothly descend to the stem, are often located close to each other. The foot grows up to 7 centimeters in height and up to 1 in width. It is the color of a cap, resembles a top hat, smooth to the touch, but very fragile.
The white flesh tastes sweet, but over time it can become pungent, does not have a sharp smell.
This grudge likes to grow in forests where alder prevails, is placed on logs, less often on soil. You can find the lilac mlechnik in the period from the last month of summer until October.
Slender sphagnum
This type of crawlers belongs to edible. The hat is small and reaches a diameter of 5 centimeters. In the middle, it resembles a depressed funnel, which expands and develops into a ragged wavy edge. The skin is rather dry but smooth, ocher-brown or light brown. Hat-colored plates descend smoothly to the stem, short, thin. The sphagnum foot is 7 centimeters high and 1 wide. Inside it is hollow and resembles a cylinder, it feels naked and rough to the touch, does not differ in color from the cap. White or creamy flesh does not have a specific smell, it is very fragile and almost tasteless.
You can find this moss in sphagnum moss in mixed, coniferous forests starting from August for two months.
Mlechnik dark brown
This type of crawlers belongs to inedible species. A hat with a diameter of 6 centimeters, often flat, sometimes lifts closer to the edge. The skin of the mushroom is velvet and smooth, brown or dark brown. The plates are thin, descending, are not very close to each other. They are usually lighter caps, cream or ocher yellow. The foot grows no more than 8 centimeters high and up to 2 centimeters wide. By itself, it is cylindrical, fragile and hard, smooth. Painted in the same color as the cap, sometimes found to be a lighter tone. If you press, it becomes dark red.
The flesh is quite dense. Usually white, but reddish if damaged, without a strong odor.
There is a dark brown sink in all forests except conifers, in the last month of summer and in the first month of autumn.
Mlechnik pink
Refers to pink mlechnik to conditionally edible representatives of the mushroom family. A hat with a diameter of up to 10 centimeters, pleasant to the touch, looks like velvet, smooth. It is predominantly grayish-pink, sometimes pink-red individuals. Characteristic of this species is a dome convex in the middle, which extends closer to the edge. The plates of the color of the cap are close to each other, thin, frequent. The foot reaches 7 inches in height and 2 inches in width. The form is predominantly cylindrical, sometimes tapers closer to the top.
White flesh to taste moderately bitter.
Beginning with the last summer month, a pink rose is collected in coniferous and mixed forests. The collection period ends in early October.
Pink Mlechnik also called volvushkoy.
Mlechnik prickly
Mushroom attributed to inedible. The size of the cap is small, reaching 6 centimeters in diameter. By itself, it is flat, has a small funnel in the middle, sinks closer to the edge. Painted mainly in red-pink color. Rough, rough and dry to the touch. Plastinochki descend to the leg, are located close to each other, small, thin. A hat-like leg grows up to 5 centimeters high and up to 1 centimeter wide. The shape resembles a cylinder that tapers smoothly towards the ground.
The color of the pulp can vary from white to ocher. The peculiarity is that when pressed it turns green.
Prickly mlechnik loves moisture and prefers any forest except coniferous. The period of growth lasts 4 months since July.
Thyroid gland
This type of loading inedible. A hat with a funnel in the middle, which is leveled closer to the edge, is no more than 6 centimeters in diameter. Painted in ocher-yellow color, darkens to dark brown when pressed. The touch is very slimy. The plates are short, located close to each other. The flesh is thick and white, but the air very quickly becomes purple. The taste can be either very bitter or sweetish. It has a rather pleasant aroma.
Leg mushroom fragile, cylindrical, hollow. On the touch, slimy and hard, its color is not different from the cap.
Thyroid lung prefer to live in deciduous forest, starting in August. It grows mainly in small groups.
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Before you start the hunt for mushrooms, you must understand which of them you can safely eat. Mlechniki are quite common, but they are often not taken because they consider it inedible. But this does not apply to all of the masses: in fact, they have excellent taste. This is one of the best mushrooms for canning and salting.