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Quiet hunting is an activity that you want to extend until the very snow. Therefore, inveterate mushroom pickers collect forest gifts for as long as possible.
The essential question is: are there milk mushrooms in October, and if so, where can they be found this month. This article tells about the forest in which milk mushrooms grow in October and with the help of what tricks you can see them among the abundantly falling leaves of trees.
Read, absorb the information and put it into practice. We hope that this will allow you to get a rich catch of mushrooms on a quiet hunt in the fall.
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How to look for milk mushrooms in October
Mushroom picking is an active, exciting, incomparable vacation. “Silent hunting” is available to everyone with a basket in their hands. Therefore, mushroom pickers are the most numerous army among tourists and hunters. It is better to look for milk mushrooms in October at sunrise, in dew or in rain: the hats shine, it does not dazzle in the eyes, the sun does not blind. Yes, and then the mushrooms are the most juicy, strong, fragrant or, as they say, vigorous. To preserve the freshness of mushrooms, it is best to collect them in a wicker willow basket.
It is impossible to collect mushrooms in buckets, bags, plastic bags – the mushrooms crumple, crumble in them, air does not enter such a container, and the mushrooms “burn out”.
Mushrooms bear fruit from spring to late autumn, but unevenly, but in waves or, as they say, in layers. In total, there are 3 or 4 layers in the middle lane.
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Do milk mushrooms grow in October and can they be harvested
The answer to the question of whether milk mushrooms grow in October is positive and in the fall we can collect mushrooms such as:
- Oak breast
[“wp-content/plugins/include-me/goog-left.php”]Hat up to 10 cm in diameter, at first convex or flat with a curved edge, slightly depressed, later funnel-shaped, with noticeable concentric zones, brick-ocher, brownish-reddish . The plates are frequent, slightly descending, pale ocher, with brown-rusty spots with age. The pulp is white, as the fungus grows, it acquires a reddish tint. The milky juice is not plentiful, slightly bitter, watery-white, does not change color in the air. Leg up to 10 cm high, solid, in the old fungus hollow, brittle, smooth or curved, of the same color with a cap, reddish-rusty at the base. It grows in small groups in broad-leaved and mixed forests with an admixture of oak, around middle-aged oaks in short grass and on the forest floor, forms mycorrhiza with oak. Fruit bodies form in July-October.
- Bitter breast
Hat 3-10 cm in diameter, flat-convex with a tucked edge, then convex-prostrate, funnel-shaped, with a papilla protruding in the center, dry, smooth, silky, without concentric rings, evenly colored dark brown, The plates of young mushrooms are light , in mature yellowish-brown, often with a whitish coating from spores. The pulp is whitish. Rarely wormy. The milky juice is abundant, white or colorless, caustic, burning. The leg is solid, becomes hollow with age, often with a hollow, whitish-felt at the base. Grows from July to October in coniferous and mixed forests in large groups. Forms mycorrhiza with pine and birch. Bitters are harvested in large quantities due to their wide distribution, high yield, resistance to insect larvae.
- gray breast
Cap 5-15 cm in diameter, densely fleshy, from initially convex becomes concave-prostrate with a folded wavy edge, usually without zones or with weak concentric circles, smooth, mucous. A fungus with a very variable color: lilac-gray, bluish-gray, lead-violet-gray, grayish-reddish-yellow, acquires an ocher-pink or purple hue with age, sometimes with watery spots, becomes brown or brownish in places of pressure. Therefore, the mushroom does not lend itself to definition for a long time. The plates are adherent or slightly descending along the stem, whitish, light ocher with age, with rusty spots. The flesh is thick, whitish, turning yellow at maturity. Milky juice in the air becomes greenish-yellow. Leg 4-12 cm high, mucous, smooth, hollow, usually swollen in the middle or below. It grows in coniferous and mixed forests, mainly under spruce and birch trees, along the edges of swamps among mosses from August to October.
- Gray-purple breast
The cap is 5-15 cm in diameter, first convex, then concave-prostrate with curved edges, sometimes asymmetrical in relation to the stem, lilac-gray. The plates are often sinuous, first light yellow, then ocher. The pulp is whitish. The milky juice is plentiful, watery-white, very caustic, bitter, but this taste disappears when boiled. The leg is sometimes swollen, first solid, then hollow, gray. It occurs in birch and aspen forests, in mixed and coniferous forests, near hazel thickets, on the sides of forest roads and paths. Fruiting from July to October.
Now you know if it is possible to collect milk mushrooms in October and where is the best place to do it. We wish you a successful quiet hunt in the coming weekend.