Cow Bay - mushrooms, which are more popularly referred to as "Dunka."Scientifically, they are called svinushki thin (Paxillus involutus).Cow Bay - mushrooms, which have previously been conditionally edible.However, after several cases of poisoning and more detailed investigations carried them to poisonous.
Description
Mushroom cow hat lip has up to 10 cm in diameter.At a young age it is olive-brown, melkovorsistaya and slightly convex, then ocher-brown, flattened, dry, smooth, matte with the edges folded down, and a funnel in the center.In rainy weather, a hat can be very slippery.Plates brown, frequent, and can be easily separated.When pressed, they turn brown.Foot fungus have a solid cylindrical.Its diameter - 1-2 cm, height - 3-6 cm. The flesh had macromycetes juicy, thick, sour taste, soft, with no particular smell.First, it has a light yellow color, but later becomes rusty-brown or yellow-brown hue.Spores smooth, short-ellipsoidal.Their powder - ocher-brown.
Habitats
Cow Bay - fungi that grow in groups in the forests of deciduous and coniferous type.They can be found under the oaks, beech, aspen, birch, in the bush, in the gardens, near the marshes, clearings and old anthills.Macromycetes prefers the undergrowth, where there is enough light.Cow Bay fruits in the period May-November.Fungus loves high humidity.
Doubles
Cow Bay - mushrooms, which can be confused with some form of mushrooms.However, for the latter is characterized by the allocation of milky juice in place and break the slices.Svinushki thin and resembles orange-red (lumpy) cortinarius.This macromycetes deadly poisonous.His toxins destroy the kidneys and liver.The orange-red cortinarius growing groups in wet spruce arrays in bilberry or thick sphagnum moss.From this thin svinushki macromycetes differs pronounced dark brown color, speckled with small pointed tubercles, as well as rare and thick plates.In transverse leg bands are yellow.
Eating
More recently mushrooms cow lips treated conditionally edible macromycetes little value.But after both abroad and in Russia, cases of severe poisoning svinushki (often fatal), additional studies were conducted.They showed that bovine lips contains toxins which during heat treatment is not destroyed.One muscarine - toxin, similar to the red poison mushroom.In humans, it causes diarrhea, vomiting, increased salivation and sweating, slow down the heart rhythm.In svinushki not contain a lot of poison, but with regular use of these fungi and accumulating in the body of large doses of the toxin is possible pulmonary edema and respiratory failure.
addition, svinushki thin contain an antigen to which the human body responds to the formation of agglutinin - antibodies that are above a certain threshold can destroy red blood cells.An interesting feature is the fact that the poisoning does not occur immediately.It all depends on the individual characteristics of a particular organism.Some people can only be poisoned after years of drinking cow's mouth, while others are more sensitive to it, but because the poisoning occurs rapidly.
