avid mushroom pickers have encountered in midsummer inconspicuous fungus called svinushki.Mushroom svinuha thin (or Paxillus involutus) grows both in coniferous and deciduous forests, as well as in parks, along roads, in garbage dumps, on the bare ground, and even in the midst of an anthill.This explains its name has taken root among the people.Svinuhi - mushrooms unpretentious and unscrupulous in the choice of place of growth.
Bears fruit long enough - from mid-June to October.It grows in large groups, sometimes paving the original paths and creating chains and rings.Outwardly, the fungus svinuha is a dense fleshy hat on a short stalk.The hat resembles a funnel with a folded-down edges.It can reach a diameter of 20 cm, but the average is 10-12 cm. Initially it is flat, but the growth becomes a funnel with a recess in the middle.The hat is not always the correct round shape, often ragged or irregular.Colour - from light brown to dark brown.The surface of the whole Mushroom rough, felt, velvet.On the surface it seems very tight, but quickly turns into dust, especially at the bottom of the basket.
svinuhi Mushrooms (pictured above) relate to the plate.Color plates - dirty yellow, with pressure marks remain dark, brittle, dry walls crumble quickly.Leg rarely grows more than 9 cm in diameter - 1.5 to 2 cm, is located centrally, often slightly shifted to the edge of the cap.The flesh is dense, on a section of the yellow, then brown, often affected by worms.
Much less can meet different kind of - Paxillus atromentosus, or fungus svinuha thick, and only in the coniferous forests on the stumps of trees.Its edibility is questionable because of the unpleasant bitter taste.And it looks strange - always side leg hat with jagged edges, asymmetrical, odorless and very tough flesh.Undoubtedly, this fungus at the end of the list of culinary preferences.
Despite this, the taste of mushroom svinuha thin much like (as opposed to thick).Since ancient times in Russia this kind of ate - cooked, salted, roasted.To date, there are disputes about the edibility, because the fungus has good taste, especially young svinushki.However, scientists have found in them the presence of toxins and poisons.Each individual body reacts to these poisons, someone with acute poisoning once, and someone does not appear to be any ill effects.Muscarine - the poison contained in the fly-agaric and there and svinushek.Furthermore, when a constant and repeated use there is the destruction of red blood cells.
Experts say that svinushki - a kind of time bomb.If the poisoning has occurred from the first time, further consequences may be very different - until the hallucinations and death.It should be completely excluded from the diet of this fungus children.It is known that if some poisons and toxins disappear during heat treatment, the accumulation of radioactive isotopes of cesium and copper remain in the pulp of the fungus.The main symptoms of poisoning - weakness, nausea, dizziness, pain in the liver.Also, there were several acute poisoning with the sad outcome.
