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Rooting boletus is a rather rare inedible mushroom that comes across in the southern climate and in the middle lane throughout the world. Although it does not bring severe harm to health, it is not recommended to confuse it with useful varieties and eat it.
What do rooted mushrooms look like
The appearance of a rooting boletus is quite typical for the Boletovs. The species, which is also called the bitter spongy boletus or stocky boletus, has a large hat up to 20 cm in diameter, at an early age the hat has a convex hemispherical shape, then flattens a little, but still remains pillow-shaped. Young rooted bolets have slightly tucked edges, while adults have straightened and wavy edges. The cap is covered with dry smooth skin of gray, greenish or light fawn color, turning blue when pressed.
The lower surface of the cap of fruiting bodies is tubular, with small rounded pores. At the point of attachment of the stem to the cap, the tubular layer is slightly depressed, the color of the tubules is lemon yellow in young fruiting bodies and with an olive tint in adults. When pressed, the tubular lower surface quickly turns blue.
The fruit body rises on a stalk to an average of 8 cm in height, the diameter of the stalk reaches 3-5 cm. In young fruiting bodies, it is tuberous and thick in shape, becoming cylindrical with age with a preserved thickening in the lower part. The color of the leg is lemon-yellow on top, and closer to the base it is covered with olive-brown or greenish-bluish spots. In the upper part, an uneven mesh is noticeable on its surface. If you break the leg, then on the break it will turn blue.
The flesh of the cap of the rooting boletus is dense and whitish, bluish closer to the tubular layer. When cut from contact with air, it turns blue, has a pleasant smell, but a bitter taste.
Where do root mushrooms grow
The rooting bolet prefers mostly warm regions. It is found in North America and Europe, in North Africa, grows in deciduous and mixed forests, especially often forms a symbiosis with birches and oaks. Despite the wide distribution area, it is rare to find it. The period of the most active fruiting occurs at the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, although you can see the bitter spongy pain from July until the very frost.
False twins of the rooting boletus
You can confuse stocky mushrooms in the forest with several mushroom varieties, edible and inedible. It is worth knowing the differences between them in order not to accidentally pass by an edible mushroom, mistakenly mistaking it for a bitter spongy pain.
Satan’s Mushroom
In size and structure, the varieties are very similar to each other, they are united by a hemispherical convex hat, a dense stem and a predominantly light shade of the hat. But at the same time, the satanic mushroom on the lower part of the stem has a reddish mesh pattern, which the rooting bolet does not have, and the shade of its tubular layer is also reddish.
gall fungus
The species also has a certain similarity with the widespread bile fungus, the most famous false twin of the edible Boletovs. The so-called mustard has a very similar stem and cap in shape and structure, but it is much darker in color than a rooted boletus. In addition, the leg of the mustard is covered with a well-marked “vascular” mesh, which is absent in the rooting boletus.
Inedible Boletus
Borovik with an expressive name has an external resemblance to a rooted boletus. Both varieties have legs similar in shape and size, convex hemispherical hats with slightly wrapped edges and smooth skin.
The inedible bolete differs mainly in the color of its cap – light brown, gray-brown or dark olive. In a stocky boletus, the hat is usually lighter in color. In addition, the leg of an inedible boletus is colored brighter, in the upper part it is lemon, in the middle it is red, and in the lower it is rich burgundy.
This mushroom, like the rooting boletus, is unsuitable for food consumption. The taste of its flesh is too bitter, and when boiled, this feature does not disappear.
semi-white mushroom
One of the edible false twins of the rooting boletus is a semi-white mushroom that grows on clayey moist soils in the southern regions of Our Country. With a rooted boletus, a semi-white mushroom is similar in a hemispherical shape of a cap and outlines of a leg.
But at the same time, the color of the semi-white fungus is darker – light brown or dark gray. Its leg is straw-yellow in the upper part and reddish in the lower part; the flesh of the semi-white mushroom does not change its color on the break. Another characteristic feature of the edible species is the distinct smell of carbolic acid coming from the fresh pulp.
Maiden boletus
An edible species with a pleasant taste, reminiscent of a bitter spongy boletus, is the girl’s boletus, which grows in deciduous forests, but is quite rare. The varieties are similar to each other in the shape of the cap, in young specimens it is convex, in adults it is pillow-shaped. Also, the bolts are almost the same size.
But at the same time, the girlish boletus has not a cylindrical, but a conical leg, in the lower part it slightly narrows and sharpens. His hat is chestnut brown or light brown, darker, and the leg also acquires a dark shade in the upper part.
Girl mushrooms are almost as rare as rooted mushrooms, but unlike them, they have great taste and decorate any dish.
Is it possible to eat mushrooms rooted
The stocky bolet belongs to the category of inedible mushrooms. There are no toxic substances in its composition, and use cannot lead to serious poisoning. However, the pulp of such a fruiting body is too bitter. It is simply pointless to soak an inedible find in salt water or boil it, because the bitter taste does not go away.
If you accidentally add bitter spongy pain to any dish, all other products will be hopelessly spoiled by the bitter taste of mushroom pulp. With increased sensitivity of the stomach or if you have an allergy, you can get indigestion, diarrhea or vomiting from the use of bitter pain – the substances in its pulp will have an irritating effect on the mucous membranes. However, an upset stomach will not entail any consequences, and there will be no toxic substances left in the body.
Conclusion
Rooting boletus is a mushroom unsuitable for food use, which has similar features with many edible and inedible representatives of the Boletovs. It is useful to study the features of the bolete in order not to mistakenly add it to a culinary dish and not to mistake delicious and healthy fruiting bodies of other species for an inedible bolete.
