Poplar blewits - fungus, which is popularly called the Sandpipers More, Topolnik or podtopolnikom.This macromycetes edible (third category), but quite rare.Poplar blewits - mushroom, the name of which is clearly reflected where it should be collected.Usually, it grows larger clusters.This macromycetes among fans of "quiet hunting" has enough fans.
Description
blewits poplar - a fungus that has a head diameter of 15 cm, with fiber-scaly or fibrous edge.Young macromycetes it has a hemispherical shape.Then it becomes convex-prostrate, then cracked and sunken.Cap podtopolnika can be dark brown with a reddish tint or yellowish-greyish-brown.Pulp his thick, white and fleshy.Under the skin it is grayish-brown.Scrapped and slices the flesh acquires a brownish tint.It tastes bitter, it smells like fresh flour.The wide, part of the plate can be macromycetes firmly attached to the stem or free.Young specimens are whitish with a slight pale pink tint, the old - brownish with rusty spots.Disputes podtopolnika spherical or oval.Their white powder.Foot fungus from dense, dry, fibrous, cylindrical, thickened bottom, slightly flattened, solid inside, yellowish-brown.It reaches a diameter of 4 cm and a length of 8 cm. Places pressure on it appear brown spots.
Habitat
many "silent hunters" are interested in where to collect these mushrooms.Poplar blewits is most common in deciduous plantings with the presence of poplars.Usually, these fungi are well covered with a layer of fallen leaves.Because of this, they adhered litter and sand.Many mushroom pickers joke that this hunt blewits need a shovel, not a knife.Podtopolniki always grow very large clusters.Macromycetes data can be found on roadsides and in parks (one must have a poplar).In dry years, they need to look in the lowlands and along the banks of reservoirs.These mushrooms are common in all areas where there is a poplar: Eastern and Western Europe, the south and the middle stripe of Russia, Siberia, the Urals and the Far East.Poplar blewits begins to bear fruit in August.In more northern regions of the guide is the beginning of leaf fall.The season usually ends in early November.
Doubles
Poplar blewits - a fungus that at a young age is similar to lyophyllum decastes.The latter is conditionally edible macromycetes so confused is not terrible.However there is another double - venomous tiger blewits.Navigate in the collection is necessary that podtopolnik, unlike the latter, growing large community, and always close to the poplars.
Culinary characteristics
Poplar blewits - quite tasty mushroom pickled and salted, but it can be prepared in other ways.Ironically, wash blewits from sand and dirt is not difficult.To remove the bitterness from macromycetes, they must be soaked for at least two days with frequent changes of water, and then boiled.The cap must first be peeled.
