Zelenuha - a fungus that is scientifically called blewits green and belongs to the genus triholoma.The people call it even greenfinch or zelyonkoj.This macromycetes got its name for its characteristic color.And he retained after cooking, the green color becomes even more crowded.Zelenuha - mushroom, which has no poisonous doubles, it makes the "hunt" for a safe.It is edible (fourth category).
interesting feature is that the macromycetes considered the last of the season.It still can be harvested, when the rest of the mushrooms are already "moved."The big plus is that it is never worm-eaten mushroom zelenuha.Photos can be seen in this article.The downside of this macromycetes considered that its surface is usually heavily contaminated with rubbish and adhering sand.Many mushroom pickers why not take the green blewits feet as clean them extremely difficult.
Description
Zelenuha - a fungus that at a young age has a convex bonnet, then it becomes a flat-prostrate with a small hump in the middle.Its color varies from greenish-gray to brownish-yellow or olive-yellow.Cap radially fibrous, often in the center of melkocheshuychataya, sticky and slimy.It is because of the latest features greatly attracts the particles of soil and rubbish zelenuha.Photos plastered with forest mushroom debris can be seen in this article.The edges of the mushroom cap omitted and wavy.Its diameter of 10 cm. The plates have notched macromycetes, adherent, frequent, large, yellowish-green or lemon yellow.Stem solid, cylindrical, longitudinally fibrous, melkocheshuychataya or smooth.Its thickness - 1-2 cm. The powder is white spores.The flesh is yellowish or light, with flour aroma and pleasant taste.
Habitat
Zelenuha - a fungus that forms mycorrhiza with pine.This determines the point where it should be sought.It grows on sandy soils in the forests of coniferous and mixed types with the presence of pine.As a rule, macromycetes hidden under the pine needles or submerged in the soil.Meets blewits like green individually, and the larger community.When the fruiting body of the fungus in the soil is fully developed, then the fallen needles or moss can see a hat.Because of this inexperienced "silent hunters" often pass by, not noticing zelenuhu.This macromycetes likes dry forests with litter, overgrown with lichens and mosses.The first copies begin to fall at the end of August.However, the mass fruiting begins in mid-September and lasts until mid-December.Greenfinch collected up to the frost.This macromycetes often coexists with butter mushrooms and porcini mushrooms.
Culinary characteristics
Zelenuha - mushroom pretty tasty and versatile.It can be drying, cooking, freezing, salting, marinating, cook, stew.As already mentioned, wash and clean the macromycetes not easy, but the most difficult - is to clean up the litter and the grains of sand that are blocked between the plates.Before preparing these mushrooms with the cap need to remove the skin.Culinary processing only adds to the natural richness of the green blewits.
