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Mushrooms and mushrooms are very tasty both boiled and fried. Very often they are used for various pickles. Because of their taste, these gifts of the forest are very popular among mushroom pickers. However, it is important to know how to distinguish the flywheel from other mushrooms, which may not be edible.
On this page, you will learn what flywheel mushrooms look like and how green flywheel differs from fissured and red flywheel. You can also get acquainted with the photo and description of the moss mushroom and get information about its counterparts.
What does the green fly mushroom look like?
Category: edible.
The name of the mushroom speaks for itself about what the green flywheel looks like. Hat (diameter 4-12 cm): usually greenish-gray or olive, may be slightly brown. Slightly convex in shape, velvety to the touch.
Leg (height 3-11 cm): in the form of a cylinder, expanding from the bottom up, may be with a brownish mesh.
Pay attention to the photo of the pulp of the green flywheel: it is white, on the cut it may turn slightly blue.
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Despite its rather noble description, the moss mushroom is very often covered with mold, which can be dangerous for humans. Therefore, it is very important to collect mushrooms without mold.
When growing: from mid-May to early October throughout Our Country, as well as in European countries, North America and Australia.
Where can I find: in all types of forests.
Eating: very tasty mushroom boiled, fried and pickled, but not suitable for long-term storage (blackens when dried). Best eaten immediately after preparation.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Mushroom flywheel red: photo and other titles
Category: edible.
Hat Xerocomus rubellus (diameter 3-9 cm): red, raspberry or brown.
Look at the photo of what a red flywheel looks like at a young age: the hat of small mushrooms is convex, shiny. Over time, it almost straightens out. The peel is difficult to separate from the pulp, after prolonged dry weather it can become covered with a network of small cracks.
Leg (height 4-12 cm): crimson, red or pinkish, slightly lighter than the cap, may be yellowish above. Covered with small scales, expanding from the bottom up, has the shape of a cylinder, solid.
Tubular layer: yellow or with a greenish or olive tint. With strong pressure, it becomes noticeably blue.
As can be seen in the photo of the red flywheel, this mushroom has a very dense, yellow flesh, which noticeably turns blue on the cut and when interacting with air.
When growing: from the beginning of August to the end of September on the Eurasian continent and in Asia. Found in North America, but very rare.
Where can I find: on soils of deciduous forests among low grass or moss, usually near oaks.
Eating: very tasty mushroom, but noticeably darkens when dried, so it is recommended to use it in a pickled or fried form.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names for red flywheel: blushing boletus, red boletus, red boletus, reddish flywheel, reddening flywheel.
Moss mushroom fissured: photo and description
Category: edible.
Hat Xerocomus chrysenteron (diameter 3-11 cm): matte, olive, burgundy or brown.
If you look closely at the photo of the fissured flywheel, you can see a barely noticeable mesh pattern and a network of wrinkles. Because of this, the mushroom got its name. In a mature mushroom, it has the shape of a swollen pillow, but may be slightly depressed in the center. Velvety to the touch.
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Leg (height 5-12 cm): yellowish on top, and red-burgundy below, covered with small scales, solid (in old mushrooms it can be hollow), has the shape of a club.
Tubular layer: cream, yellow or olive, turns blue at the site of pressure.
Pulp: white or yellowish, very blue at the site of the cut or break. It does not have a pronounced smell and taste.
When growing: from early July to mid-September in Europe and the Far East.
Where can I find: on acid soils of all types of forests, especially near beeches and oaks.
Eating: salted and dried.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names: yellow flywheel, yellow-meat flywheel, pasture boletus.
How to distinguish flywheel from twins
Double flywheel green-variegated flywheel (Xerocomus chrysenteron). This mushroom can be distinguished by a thin and reddish pigment layer under the skin.
Doubles of the red flywheel – polish mushroom (Xerocomus the Baptist) and fissured flywheel (Xerocomus chrysenteron). But the Polish mushroom, which is most often found next to coniferous trees – spruce or pine, has a darker cap color. And the leg of the fissured flywheel has an intense reddish tint and also mainly grows in coniferous forests.
Another twin of the fissured flywheel – pink-legged flywheel (Xerocomus Lock). This mushroom differs only in that it grows exclusively in deciduous forests.