It is easy to get confused in the numerous types of rows, especially for a novice mushroom picker.
Numerous edible and inedible rows form a large family, which includes over 2500 species of these agaric mushrooms.
General description of rows
Most types of rows are considered edible, and only a few of them are poisonous. Mixed or coniferous forests on sandy soils are favorite places where rows grow. Rows show the highest yield in August-October. These are tender and tasty mushrooms that can be processed in various ways: fried, pickled or salted. Beforehand, it is necessary to remove the skin from the caps and thoroughly rinse the mushrooms under running water, since grains of sand and small specks like to hide between the plates of the fruiting bodies.
Since old mushrooms begin to taste a little bitter, it is best to eat young specimens.
Video about what row mushrooms look like
It is believed that the rows help the treatment of tuberculosis, although it is absolutely impossible to self-medicate this serious illness.
Edible rows
Ryadovka lilac-legged (purple)
The first is to give a photo and description of edible row mushrooms using the example of their beautiful purple variety, which is very popular. Lilac-legged rows have dense flesh with a purple hue with a floral aroma. Leg of the same color, but slightly lighter. This species occurs in autumn (September-October), most often on the edges and in thinned places of deciduous or coniferous forests, can occur in the form of groups, rows or circles.
Row yellow-red
If you look at the photo of what red row mushrooms look like, then many will recognize pine agaric in them, which is considered a conditionally edible mushroom.
Only the youngest specimens can be used, because as they grow older, these mushrooms acquire an increasingly unpleasant taste.
The orange-yellow velvety cap of the mushroom is decorated with fibrous red scales. The flesh of the cap is very dense and bright yellow, with a sour smell, reminiscent of rotting wood, and a bitter taste.
Row yellow
Among mushroom pickers, it is also known as "decorated" or "beautiful". It is smaller than its counterparts and is rarely seen. The yellow-olive cap has almost no tubercle, instead of which there is a dark spot in the center. The fungus has narrow yellow, often seated plates. This is a “nail fungus” - even in adult specimens, the leg does not exceed 1 cm. Outside, the leg is covered with scales, and inside it is hollow with brown flesh, while the flesh in the cap is yellow. Decorated rows have a pleasant woody smell, but a bitter taste.
Row gray
The light gray cap of this mushroom has a subtle purple hue. In young mushrooms, the shape of the cap is slightly convex, but with age it becomes flat, and a tubercle forms in the center. The surface of the cap is smooth, but as the mushroom matures, it becomes covered with a network of cracks. Usually the flesh of the mushroom has a white-gray color, but sometimes it is yellowish. Gray rowing has an expressive floury smell and a rather pleasant and mild taste. The beginning of autumn is the best time to collect gray rows.
Video about how the gray row looks like
poplar rowing
Mushroom pickers poplar row is simply called poplar mushroom. This is a fairly large type of rows with yellow or terracotta hats that have lighter edges. The mushroom is sticky to the touch, and its dense flesh is white.
Ryadovka Mayskaya
This species has a small (about 5 cm) hump-shaped hat. It is creamy when young and turns white as it grows. The dense, white flesh of the mushroom smells and tastes like fresh flour. White frequent plates as they grow older become cream or ocher.
Row crowded
This is that infrequent species of mushrooms, whose fruiting bodies grow together so strongly that it is difficult to separate them. The mushroom cap is fleshy and brittle, may have:
- hemispherical shape with raised or wrapped edges;
- prostrate, slightly concave shape;
- convex-prostrate shape with raised edges.
Moreover, in one joint, mushrooms can be present not only in different sizes (4-12 cm), but also in shapes. Sticky to the touch, smooth cap has an off-white or gray color, becoming brighter with age. The elastic and fibrous pulp of the mushroom has a light brown hue, a floury aroma and a pleasant taste. Frequent, thick plates are painted yellow or off-white.
Row earthy
The mushroom has a small conical or hemispherical cap, which changes with age to a flat-convex one with a distinct tubercle in the center. Young mushrooms are silky to the touch, but gradually acquire scales.
- The caps may be gray or grey-brown, with firm and white flesh. Ryadovka is earthy, although it does not have a distinct smell and taste, but in Europe it is in great demand. She has a fleshy large hat, reaching a diameter of up to 15 cm, changing shape from cushion-shaped in young specimens to prostrate, with jagged edges in "veterans". The color of the matte cap varies from whitish to pinkish brown, with a darker center. The flesh of the cap is dense and white, with a pleasant floral aroma and a slightly sweet taste.
- The legs grow to a height of 10 cm and a thickness of 2 cm, they are slightly expanded towards the base, have a pinkish-cream or whitish color. Vertical streaks characteristic of the genus Lepista may be visible on the surface of the stem, but not always. Hard fibrous pulp.
Inedible rows
As for the poisonous rowing mushroom, the photo and description of such species must be studied thoroughly so as not to collect dangerous specimens in your basket.
Row white
- The hat, 6-10 cm in diameter, has a grayish-white surface, always dull and dry. The caps of old mushrooms have a yellowish-brown area in the center, covered with ocher-colored spots. Initially, the cap is convex in shape with curved edges, later becoming convex-open.
- The dense, elastic leg of the fungus initially has the color of a cap, and later becomes yellowish-brown at the base, reaches a length of 5-10 cm. At the base, it is slightly expanded and sometimes has a powdery coating.
A strongly unpleasant smell and a pungent, burning taste make this mushroom inedible, and some sources classify it directly as poisonous.
White Row grows in large groups in dense forests, but can be found in groves and even parks. Due to its white color, it somewhat resembles champignons, but its light plates do not darken, moreover, the sharp strong smell of the white row allows you to quickly distinguish these mushrooms.
Row pointed
It is also a poisonous row, which can be confused with a completely edible earthy-gray row. It grows in autumn in moist coniferous and deciduous forests. The size of the cap does not exceed 8 cm, and its shape varies from bell-conical to hump-shaped-convex. The color of the cap is ash-gray, the edges are striped, and the middle is dark. The soft body of the fungus changes color from whitish-grayish to white, has a floury smell and a bitter taste.
Row gray-yellow
This mushroom is not very poisonous - it can sometimes cause mild stomach ailments, but its smell is very unpleasant. Prefers coniferous and deciduous forests, where in August-September it grows on stumps or on the ground. The original conical shape of the cap with a tubercle is replaced by a plano-convex one. The color of the cap is bright sulfur-yellow, with a darker middle. The flesh is also sulfur yellow, sometimes greenish, with an unpleasant odor of hydrogen sulfide or tar, and an equally unpleasant taste. A long, thin, dense stem with a thickening at the bottom, smooth or curved, has a whitish gray-yellow color. These types of rows are sometimes confused with greenfinches.
Poisonous Tiger Row
From August to October, tiger rows grow on the ground and on the edges in coniferous, less often in beech forests, they love calcareous soils. They are found in temperate latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, both single mushrooms and groups, and "witch circles". In young mushrooms, spherical caps are replaced by bell-shaped-convex, and later - flat-spread with wrapped edges.
Off-white, whitish-gray or gray-black skin sometimes has a bluish tint and is covered with dark concentric scales. The cap has a grayish dense pulp, harsh at the base of the fungus, does not change color at the break.
This poisonous mushroom, even in small doses, can cause serious digestive upsets because it contains an unknown toxin. Pleasant smells and tastes are especially dangerous because they mislead mushroom pickers.
Signs of poisoning come on quickly (sometimes after 15 minutes) and consist of vomiting, nausea and diarrhea. It looks like an earthy gray row.
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