What mushrooms look like white mushrooms: all varieties
We suggest that you learn about all varieties of mushrooms that are similar to white mushrooms and read their full description in order to know which of them are conditionally edible and which are deadly poisonous. This information will help to avoid mistakes during the forest "silent hunt" and will protect against unintentional poisoning. So, read about what mushrooms look like white mushrooms and by what signs they can be distinguished in the field without special equipment.
Be sure to look at the mushroom that looks like a white breast in the photo and remember that you can’t take it in any case, since it is very poisonous.
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A real chest (white)
Real white breast grows in birch forests and mixed forests mixed with birch. It is quite rare, but sometimes in large groups, from July to October. The cap is large, up to 20 cm in diameter, in young mushrooms it is white, round-convex, then funnel-shaped, with a hairy edge tucked down, white or slightly yellowish, often with slightly noticeable watery concentric stripes. In wet weather, it is mucous, for which this mushroom is called "raw breast." The pulp is white, dense, brittle, with a spicy smell. Milky juice is white, pungent, bitter in taste, becomes sulfur-yellow in the air. Legs descending on the leg, white or cream, with a yellowish edge, wide, rare. The stalk is short, thick, naked, white, sometimes with yellowish spots, in mature mushrooms it is hollow inside. Conditionally edible, the first category. Used for pickling, less often for pickling. Salty breasts have a bluish tint.
White mushrooms, similar to milk mushrooms (with photo)
There are various white mushrooms, similar to milk mushrooms and it is important to be able to recognize them by the smallest differences. The white lump is confused, of course, with the violin-makers - dry, hard, white mushrooms, like two drops of water similar to white mushrooms. Mycologists cannot come to an agreement either - in this family of grubs, someone still stands out aspen white breasts (although this is the same violin player that grows in symbiosis with aspen trees, like the boletus), someone else stands out as white loads. In general - confusion. With edibility too. Dear authors, they are completely confused, they gave conditional edibility to the violinist, but aspen, in their opinion, is inedible.
Very similar to the breasts are real yellow breasts. They have approximately the same size, the edges of the caps are also downy and turned down. Similar in taste. Only have intensely yellow color. It grows mainly in birch, less often in coniferous forests. It occurs singly or in groups from July to October. A large mushroom, in appearance and size, is similar to a real breast, but differs from it in color. It has a golden yellow hat with weakly expressed dark concentric zones and a furry edge wrapped down, first round-convex, then funnel-shaped. The flesh of the mushroom is white, from touch and turning yellow.When damaged, it secretes white milky juice, caustic, turning yellow in air in dry weather. The leg is short, narrowed downward, pale yellow, with dark spots, mucous. Conditionally edible, the first category, goes to the pickle and for pickling. To taste it is not inferior to the present.
Aspen chest
Aspen mushrooms grow in moist aspen and poplar forests. It is rare, singly or in groups, from July to October. The hat is up to 20 cm in diameter, first convex, then funnel-shaped, with fringed edges turned down, dirty white with pinkish or watery concentric zones, mucous in wet weather. The pulp is white, without a noticeable smell and a burning taste. Milky juice is white, not changing in the air. Records descending along the leg, whitish or slightly pinkish, very frequent. The leg is short, thick, dense, narrowed downward, downy in the upper part, white or the same color with a hat. Conditionally edible, the second category. Suitable for salting only.
Peppercorns
Peppermint grows in deciduous forests mixed with oak and birch. It occurs in July - October quite often in large groups. The whole mushroom is first white, then with a yellowish tinge. The hat is up to 20 cm in diameter, fleshy, dense, first flat, with a curled edge, then funnel-shaped, matte, dry. The pulp is white, in the section it becomes bluish-blue, peppery taste. Milky juice is plentiful, white, turns blue in the air. The plates are white or cream, very frequent, narrow, descending along the leg. The leg is short, dense, smooth, white, sometimes with dented spots. Conditionally edible, fourth category. Used for salt and pickling after boiling.
Violinist
The fiddler is quite often found in coniferous and deciduous forests of the middle zone, in large groups, from mid-June to mid-September. A hat with a diameter of up to 20 cm, first flat-convex, in the middle of a depression, with a curled edge. Later it becomes funnel-shaped with a wavy, often cracked edge. The surface is dry, slightly pubescent, pure white, later slightly buffy. The plates are rare, whitish or yellowish. Leg up to 6 cm long, thick, slightly narrowed at the base, solid, white. The pulp is coarse, dense, white, later yellowish, with a plentiful white, pungent, milky sap.
The collected mushrooms in a basket rub against each other and emit a characteristic creak.
For this they were called “violinists”, “violinists”. Mushroom pickers do not always take these mushrooms, although they are used for salting, becoming strong and gaining a lavish smell. The mushroom turns white with a bluish tint and creaks on the teeth.
White mushroom poisonous mushroom
A poisonous mushroom, similar to a white lump, is a gray-pink lactarius and it is absolutely inedible, deadly for humans.
Hat with a diameter of 4-12 cm, densely fleshy, convex- or flat-spaced to a funnel-shaped, sometimes with a tubercle, initially with a bent, and later with a lowered edge, dry, silky-fibrous, finely scaly, almost naked with age, ocher-red-flesh, ocher - dirty pinkish-gray or pinkish-brownish, when dried with blurry spots. The plates are descending, narrow, thin, whitish, later pinkish-cream and orange-ocher. Leg 4-8 × 0.8-3.5 cm, cylindrical, dense, eventually hollow, felt, at the base hairy-felt, hat-colored, in the upper part lighter, mealy. The flesh is yellowish with a reddish tinge; the lower part of the leg is reddish-brownish, sweet, without any particular smell (when dried, with the smell of coumarin); milky juice is watery, sweet or bitter, does not change color in air. Growth. It grows in moist coniferous and deciduous forests. Forms fruiting bodies in July - October. Poisonous mushroom.
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