Mushroom goat is a member of the family Boletovye.The people call it: Kozlyakov, mullein, Reshetnikov Ivanchyk and others. Mushroom kid relatively little known.However, his relatives are such popular macromycetes as birch, aspen and boletus.A goat skin is not removed from the bonnet.From the oil they differ somewhat smaller.In addition, the legs Kozlyakov no cuff - the hallmark of oil fall.
Description
have Kozlyakov cap has a diameter of 12 cm. As a rule, young macromycetes it is convex, but after a while it becomes smooth.Cap slimy to the touch, and the edges - wavy.The color of its orange-brown and sometimes light-brown.In dry weather, it becomes shiny and damp - greasy.Skirt under the cap is missing.The young specimens Hymenophore red and yellow, and in more mature - brown-olive.Older mushroom flesh harsh, dense, elastic, has a mild taste and a faint pleasant smell.The tubular layer macromycetes - adherent to the leg.Initially it has a dirty-yellow color, but as they grow older mullein becomes light brown or brown.From touching the tubular layer thereon remain dark spots.Milky mushroom juice kid does not emit.Its spore print is light brown or olive-brown.Leg macromycetes cylindrical shape.The maximum thickness of it is 2 cm and height - 10 cm. It is a dense, solid and smooth, sometimes it can be bent, young specimens slightly inflated.The foot has the same color as the hat.Photos mushrooms kids can be found in this article.
Habitat and distribution
Mushroom kid grows in coniferous and mixed forests.Moreover, it can be found in the whole area of the northern part of the temperate zone between July and September-October.Kozlyakov prefer damp places.They especially like the lowlands, wetlands and pine forests.Next to them, often you can find blueberries, cloudberries and blueberries.Mushroom kid is very unpretentious.Usually, he settles a large community, though there are single copies.One of the positive qualities of Kozlyakov is that there are no poisonous look-alikes, with which it could be confused.The exception is the pepper fungus that more like him.However, this macromycetes although not edible, and not poisonous.Especially that pepper mushrooms rarely form a community.
Culinary characteristics
Kid - edible mushroom.It belongs to the third category.Eat it can be after fifteen minutes of cooking.Longer treatment is not recommended, as the fruiting bodies are boiled soft and purple, which can spoil the aesthetics of meals.Mushroom kid salted, pickled, fried and stewed.They can zasushivat the winter.From dry Kozlyakov make a wonderful mushroom powder.These mushrooms have a rich composition.It contains such useful substances: vitamins, vitamin PP & D, phosphorus, carotene, and a set of valuable amino acids.These fungi have antimicrobial activity.
