One of the valuable booty in a basket mushroom picker - a white milk mushroom, one of the varieties of mushrooms Russula family, genus mlechnikov.There are white, black, yellow, bluish, pepper, oak, aspen and other species Gruzdev.Its name was due to the massiveness of the fungus, it can be said heaviness.Lactarius relates to conditionally edible mushrooms of the first category.
White milk mushroom has an almost flat hat with a dimple in the center, with the edges folded down.The young plants are heavily curled edges, while the old mushroom has a funnel shape.The maximum diameter of the cap - 50 cm, but is more common 10-20 cm. The color of the fungus is not pure white, has different shades: milk, cream, beige.On the hat may be present yellow spots or concentric circles of a different hue.The stem is short and thick, with a cavity inside the mature fungus.The flesh is white plant, with a sharp spicy smell, quite fragile.To cut and smashing milkweed, yellowing over time.Juice gives the bitterness of the fungus, so before eating it soaked in cold water.The inner side of the cap plate.But in order to avoid mistakes during the "quiet hunting" and not break any poisonous mushroom, is better to study the white milk mushroom (photo).This fungus is similar: Russula delica, Lactarius yellow, bluish milk mushroom and pepper.
Meet the white milk mushroom can be from late July until October.The search for this plant - a rather difficult venture, because the fungus likes to disguise, and at first glance it is hard to notice, it seems that it's just a bump or mound, covered with leaves.For best results, "quiet hunting" better equipped to stick a fork at the end.Lactarius grows in birch or mixed pine-birch forests on steep slopes.But if there is at least one fungus, do not go far from this place - like mushrooms grow whole little family, so that you can collect a "harvest."
Area Habitat White Gruzdev - Belarus, the upper and middle Volga region, the Urals, north of Russia, Western Siberia.He has other names: pierid, raw milk mushroom, pravsky.
White Lactarius good at pickling, while he has one distinguishing feature - a little bluish color.Before using mushrooms should be thoroughly cleaned of dirt and other forest litter, then soak and pickle.Soaking lasts one-two days to periodically replace the cold water.Salted in a barrel with the best spices.Mushrooms are ready for use within 40 days.Less marinated mushrooms.Culinary processing helps to completely withdraw the poisons from the plant.As an ingredient of any food Lactarius used only after salting.
Lactarius White is very rich in protein, it contains more than 30%, and exceeds calorie meat.This fungus is widely used in medicine due to its anti-bacterial properties.It is used in the production of anti-TB drugs.Good drink milk mushroom in the season of colds, as it strengthens bronchi and lungs.It is proved that white milk mushroom is able to reduce blood sugar levels.Packs of mushrooms can be deduced warts.
