Blewits poisonous (Tiger): mushroom, dangerous to health

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blewits poisonous - it is quite a dangerous fungus that belongs to the genus Triholoma.Poisoning can cause the eating of macromycetes even in small quantities.Scientifically it is called blewits tiger.Macromycetes These are very insidious.Because the "silent hunters" often mistake them for edible flour due pleasant aroma and sweet taste, which have poisonous mushrooms blewits.Photos can be seen in this article.Fortunately, this fungus is uncommon.

Habitat

Usually blewits poisonous grows in forests of pine type, but it also occurs in mixed and deciduous forests.This macromycetes prefers calcareous soils.It creates a mycorrhiza with linden, elm and oak, but also found in forest clearings.Although blewits poisonous and rare mushroom, but can grow in large groups, often forming a "witches rings".It is found throughout the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere.Macromycetes lives in the middle zone of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern regions of Siberia, the Urals, throughout Europe.Mushroom fruiting in August-October.There are many macromycetes that resemble it.At a young age greatly resembles edible mushroom blewits gray.Therefore, the collection of the latter have to be careful.

Description

blewits poisonous has a dense, thick, fleshy, dry, fiber hat with diameter up to 12 cm. The basic tone of its gray or bluish-gray.Young macromycetes it has a hemispherical shape tupokonusoobraznuyu.In mature specimens hat becomes a plane or convex-spreading, and it clearly emerges brownish, dark gray or brownish-gray scales.In mature mushrooms she often cracks.Because of these features, and got its name blewits poisonous.Photos of this fungus with scales and cracks can be seen below.Plates macromycetes rare, sinuate-adnate, greenish-whitish or yellowish-whitish.There are juice.Over time, they become olive gray.The powder is white spores.Heavy foot grows to a height of 8 cm and a diameter - up to 4 cm. The color is whitish, it is closer to the bottom melkoplastinchataya, reddish or brownish, mealy top.Blewits poisonous has a dense white flesh.On the cap under the skin it is gray, but in the bottom of the feet slightly reddish.Scrapped sections and its color does not change.

poisoning and first aid

blewits contains poisonous deadly toxin poorly studied.Use it in food leads to severe gastrointestinal disorders because of the defeat of the digestive system.Symptoms of poisoning are diarrhea, severe nausea, vomiting.They appear after 1,5-2 hours after ingestion of the fungus, but the first signs of some people feel after 15 minutes.If poisoning should immediately consult your doctor, as its consequences can be very severe.Including even death.First aid is immediate gastric lavage with potassium permanganate and the subsequent reception of activated carbon or other sorbents.