Cep (boletus) - Boletus edulis - is common on well-drained, but not too moist soils.This species is considered to be light-requiring, but in some forests can be found in the very shadow areas, under the canopy of lush trees.Practice shows that in good years the number of mushrooms on the degree of illumination is independent.Under adverse conditions as they can be found, as a rule, only on the well-lit and heated areas.
boletus mushroom.Description
In mature members of the family hat has a diameter of from seven to thirty (and sometimes up to fifty) centimeters, convex shape.The old mushroom cap several flat, convex and rarely prostrate.The surface is smooth or wrinkled, naked, at the edge can be fine-felt and rarely wavy scaly.With dry weather on the surface can be formed cracks in the wet as a thin layer of mucus.The color of the skin cap from almost white to reddish-brown, darkens with age.Coating may be uneven, lemon yellow, magenta, orange shade with light edges, sometimes yellowish or white rim.Adherent skin is not separated from the pulp.
boletus mushroom flesh has a strong, juicy, fleshy.The old representatives she fiber.Young mushroom boletus different white pulp that starts to turn yellow with age.The color does not change after the cut (in very rare cases there may be a slight color change to blue or pink).Under dark skin can be found a layer of red-brown or brown tint.Raw flesh emits a faint smell.The strong flavor of the mushroom appears in drying or cooking.
leg has a height of from eight to twenty-five centimeters (typically occur up to twelve).Thickness - to seven centimeters (in rare cases ten or more).Boletus mushroom has a massive, barrel-shaped or club-foot.With age it can stretch and become cylindrical, tapered or expanded in the middle, the foundation also often remains somewhat thickened.The surface of the stem is whitish, brownish, sometimes reddish, and can be the same shade as the mushroom hat, but a little lighter.The foot is covered with mesh of light streaks, usually it is located in the upper part, but can also be located at the base.Very rarely mesh poorly developed or non-existent.
located near the leg tubular layer with a comparatively deep groove separated from the pulp cap quite easily.This tubular layer in young specimens of white, yellow with age, he subsequently acquires an olive hue.In rare cases, young members can see it in pink and red colors.The tubes have a length of from one to four centimeters, the fine pores have a rounded shape.
boletus mushrooms distributed mainly in the woods with moss or lichen cover, with trees dating back more than fifty years.It should be said that in quite a rich harvest of pine forests can be found in areas with trees aged no more than twenty - twenty-five years.
White mushrooms are common to all but the Australian mainland.The main places of distribution should be attributed almost the entire European territory, Central and North America, Africa (South and North).At the Asian territories of items can be found in Turkey, northern Mongolia, Japan, China, South Caucasus.Distributed boletus and the Far East, Siberia.Sometimes it is found in Lebanon and Syria, and grows well in the British Isles and Iceland.
Members of this family - one of the few species, most penetrating far into the Arctic territory.Further than white mushrooms, come only in certain types of brown cap boletus.
