Butterflies with a "skirt": edible and false mushrooms

Butterdish is the most popular representative of the mushroom kingdom. These mushrooms are easy to “hunt”, because they grow whole families.

The butterfish got its name for its interesting features: the mushroom cap is covered with mucous, sticky skin, which is difficult to remove, especially if it is wet. Another characteristic feature of some representatives of this species is the presence of rings on the leg. Are there butterflies with a “skirt”, and can they be eaten?

Edible butter mushrooms with a "skirt"

Butterflies with a "skirt" are edible mushrooms, with a semicircular chestnut-brown hat. In mature individuals, the cap has the shape of a cone with the edges down. Sometimes the familiar color of an adult mushroom cap becomes dark red. Leg oily white with brown spots at the base. Sometimes their height reaches 12 cm and a thickness of 3 cm. In an adult oiler with a "skirt" the color of the film wrapping around the leg acquires a grayish-violet hue.

A fairly common type of mushroom butter with a "skirt" are considered to be "late" or "real". The legs of such mushrooms are wrapped in a white film that looks like a “skirt”. Although they are called "late", they actually appear, like all other mushrooms: in early June, when the weather is favorable for growth.

Latin name: Suillus luteus;

Gender: tubular oiler;

View: common oiler;

Family: Flight;

Doubles: Siberian mushroom, yellow-brown, pepper.

Description of the mushroom.

Hat: diameter - 3 - 15 cm, adhesive to the touch, covered with mucus, from lemon yellow to dark brown, the upper slippery layer is poorly removed. Under the hat is a tubular structure that looks like a sponge.

Leg: height 4 - 12 cm, thickness up to 3 cm, curved or club-shaped, granular on top, with a "skirt" of white or grayish color, a leg of a color such as a hat above the ring.

Pulp: soft, juicy, lemon-yellow, does not change on a section; in mature mushrooms, on a section, it turns pink or red;

Edibility: tasty, edible, belong to the II category of nutritional value;

Spread: pine and mixed forests of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus.

The difference between false oils with "skirt" from edible

There are also other edible representatives of this genus.

For example, ruby butterdishgrowing only in oak forests and very common in Europe. Butterfly "larch", which is usually found in cedar forests and places where larches grow. Butterfly “American” is often found in thickets of cedar dwarf in Chukotka.

However, if butterflies have so many varieties, then are there false butterflies with a "skirt", and what are their differences?

Often, amateur mushroom pickers can confuse a real butterdish with its double - pepper mushroom. Although this representative is not toxic, it tastes bitter and can lead to indigestion. False butterflies do not have a white “skirt” on the leg. Although the leg of the false oiler is decorated with a purple ring, with further growth it dries and disappears, becoming almost invisible.