White mushrooms: a description of species with a photo. What does the white fungus look like? Where to find a lot of ceps?
White mushroom picking the leading position in itsnutritional value in comparison with others. He is also known among the many as a "boletus". He has his authority among lovers of "quiet hunting." The number of mushrooms found during the campaign for mushrooms is an indicator of the success of the event. This is due to the fact that other mushrooms, such as russules, butterfishes, honey agarics, although they are collected with enthusiasm, but do not please and do not delight so, the boletus. It is called so because all its parts retain a light tint, regardless of the characteristics of processing - this is what a white fungus is good for.
White mushroom: description and varieties
White mushroom (boletus) has a property to grow from the beginningsummer and almost all autumn. In the largest number they are found in August-September. The family of ceps prefers to grow in large groups. Therefore, if you find one representative, others are hiding nearby.
To the amateur in this matter to understand howlooks like a white fungus, you can search pictures on the Internet. The hat can reach in diameter about 25 cm. Below it has a hemispherical shape, and above - a more flat, dry one. The characteristics of white mushrooms can vary depending on the forest, where they grew. Growing in the spruce forest are distinguished by a small hat with a reddish or brownish hue and a high, relatively thin stem. Their relatives from boron have a bigger bonnet, in addition, and its color is darker, the foot is shorter and thinner. In birch groves they are very light, the hat has a pale brown color, and the foot is thick, which is wider to the bottom. The color of the cap directly depends on the degree of illumination. Boroviki, who grew up in a place with a lot of light, have a rich brown, almost black hat, and those that are concentrated in shaded areas are lighter. White mushroom with a white hat, as a rule, hides under branches, needles, leaves, in moss.
A tubular layer can also be different. By the time of growth, it changes its shade from white to yellowish, and then - greenish. At the point of fracture, the tubular ball does not change its color, easily separating from the pulp. Mushroom legs can reach 20 cm in length at a thickness of about 9 cm. Initially, they have a tubular form, and in the process of growth acquires a cylindrical shape.
There is also a white mountain mushroom, which is quite similar to a boletus, but belongs to a very different family. He grows in the mountainous areas, you can find it in the Crimea, the Altai and southern Europe.
Where can you find many ceps?
Zones where you can find a lot of ceps,are spruce forests or pine forests, as well as birch groves with thin thickets. The site should be slightly elevated, and the forest itself is quite light and cool. White mushrooms can not grow on swamps or bumps. They usually do not accept dense thickets, but direct rays for them are not comme il faut. Search for them should be in low grass, under fallen pine needles or leaves lying in a thick but soft layer.
In the case of summer with heavy rainfall, the boarworms focus on elevated areas, looking for less damp patches. And in dry weather choose moist and cool hollows.
Experienced mushroom pickers know not only how to check,whether they are white mushrooms, but also that it is possible to calculate the time of their appearance by whether the fly agarics have grown. Where the fly agaric began to grow, you need to look for boarocks. Note that they grow in groups, and therefore, after finding one white fungus, look for others along the way.
Boroviki are suitable for any type of processing. Some mushroom pickers argue that the ceps can be eaten even in raw form.
