Polish white mushroom belongs to the second category of edibility.It is quite delicious and popular in some regions, particularly in late autumn, when there is no other boletovyh.In European countries, Polish white mushroom is highly valued and is considered magnificent for its taste qualities.From it cook soups, roast cooked, dried, pickled, salted, frozen.It is believed that the taste it is strongly reminiscent of boletus.An interesting fact is that the dishonest traders sometimes try to foist inexperienced buyers dried polish instead of the white.
Description
Polish white mushroom has a hat, hemispherical at an early age and plano-convex or a cushion at maturity.In old age, it is flattened.Diameter - 20 cm. Painting hats can have different colors: light brownish red, olive, kashtanovo-, brownish, chocolate and and dark brown, sometimes black and brown.In rainy weather, a shade darker.Young macromycetes its edges are bent, and in mature they rise.Peel cap dry, smooth, velvety to the touch, damp weather - shiny and oily.It can not be removed.The tubular layer of yellowish.If you put pressure on him to appear bluish, bluish, blue-green or brown-brown spots.Tubes from fungus round, notched or angular.The pores can be wide, medium or small.
Foot height - 3-12 cm (average) thickness of 1-4 cm. She herself cylindrical, dense, or tuber-acute base, smooth or fibrous, solid, sometimes slightly curved.The leg can be painted in the following colors: yellow-brownish, light brown, brown, yellow-brown.When pressed, it turns blue, then turns brown.The pulp from the fungus fleshy, dense, with a pronounced mushroom or fruit aroma and sweet taste.In color it is a pale yellow or whitish, under the skin brown.Scrapped and slices the flesh becomes first bluish, then turns brown and then turn white.Young macromycetes it solid, but softens with age.Powder dispute has olive-brown or brownish-green.Overall, a very impressive looks Polish white mushroom.Picture him there in this article.
Habitat
White Polish mushroom grows on acidic soils (under the chestnut, beech and oak trees), as well as in coniferous forests under old pines and spruces.Prefers sandy mossy ground, a bed of fallen leaves, lowlands, can grow in the mountains.Distributed in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere.Polish porcini mushrooms are more common in the European part of Russia.Collect them in June and November.
Doubles
Inexperienced "silent hunters" often confuse Poland with fir or birch kind of white fungus.However, they can be easily distinguished.In classic white mushroom leg lighter, barrel-shaped or turns blue when pressed.On the same grounds macromycetes differentiate from gall fungus, which is inedible.Much more Polish white mushroom similar to some species of the flywheel to the genus of which he himself belongs.For example, the flywheel brown, mottled and green.However, these mushrooms are edible and are not dangerous to health.
