What are false mushrooms and how do they differ from edible

False honey mushrooms are called several different species, which share an external similarity with the real. Not all of them are poisonous, there are also conditionally edible ones.

Their main difference is the absence of a mushroom smell, but you can also recognize them by the absence of a ring on the stem, as well as by the wateriness of the edge of the hat in wet weather.

Types of false mushrooms

Actually false mushrooms are called three types:

• sulfur yellow
• seroplate
• brick red.

The first of them is poisonous, the rest are consumed after thorough boiling.

There are 3 more varieties of mushrooms that are often confused with honey mushrooms:

• deadly poison Galerina edged;
• conditionally edible Psatirella Candolle;
• Psatirella is watery.

Not very attentive mushroom pickers can collect them, since both false and real ones often grow nearby or on the same stump. Moreover, false ones also often grow in friendly families, growing together from below with legs, like real ones.

Galerina edged (Galerina Marginata)

Contains the same poison amanitine as pale grebe. It occurs only near coniferous trees, and the real mushrooms are found in deciduous forests, although mixed willows can grow in mountainous areas. Poisonous galerin smells like flour, not mushrooms. It grows mainly in groups of 3-8 mushrooms or individually. It happens that the gallery is confused with winter openings. It should be borne in mind that the leg of a real mushroom does not have a ringlet, in contrast to a poisonous one.

To avoid poisoning, refuse to collect honey mushrooms among fir trees and other conifers!

Sulfur Yellow False Foam (Hypholoma Fasciculare)

These false mushrooms are found in large families of up to 50 fused legs.

The cap in young mushrooms resembles a bell in shape, in old ones it looks like an open umbrella.

It differs from the real honey agaric in the yellow color of the cap, inedible smell, and also the leg devoid of a ring (all honey mushrooms except winter ones have it).

Brick Red False Foam (Hypholomalateritium)

The mushroom is classified as conditionally edible, for eating it must be boiled for at least 30-40 minutes, and then drain the water.

In many countries, brick-red false foam is considered quite edible. In Russia, it is eaten in Chuvashia. With insufficient preliminary boiling, it causes nausea, pain in the stomach and head, and vomiting.

Often these false mushrooms are confused with autumn ones. The former can be distinguished by the red-brown color of the hat, light yellow or beige pulp. On the leg of a real honey agaric there is necessarily a cuff, while false ones do not. The smell is unpleasant, and the autumn ones smell like mushrooms.

False Foam Seroplate (Hypholomacapnoides)

Foam seroplate is edible, but it is suitable for food only after thorough boiling. It is also called poppy seed, because as it grows from above, it is covered with specks the size of a poppy seed. The edges of the hat are darker than its center. The pulp smells of damp. These mushrooms can be found on windbreak and stumps, often pine.

They differ from autumn mushrooms by the missing cuff on the leg and radial wrinkles on the hat, as well as the color of the plates.

Psathyrella Candolle (Psathyrellacandolleana)

The fungus is considered conditionally edible. Before cooking, boil it, and then drain the water. The popular name is a flimsy woman, received for a very fragile, easily breaking cap, covered with small scales that quickly disappear. With age, it turns yellow.

It differs from ordinary mushrooms in the absence of odor in the pulp.

Psathyrella watery (Psathyrella Piluliformis)

Psatirella is conditionally edible and suitable for food after boiling. In wet weather, droplets of aqueous liquid appear on the plates below. The hat is dark brown, yellowing with age, and yellowing begins from the center and extends to the edges. The smell is weak or absent.

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