Boletus: characteristic of species

Going into the forest for summer birch trees (Leccinum), you need not worry: these species do not have poisonous doubles. The mushrooms ripening in June are a little similar only to bile Tylopilus felleus, but the flesh of these inedible fruit bodies has a pinkish tint, so it is difficult to confuse them with Leccinum. Brown boletus, appearing in the forest in early summer, continue fruiting until mid-autumn.

Mushrooms are known to all. June varieties are especially desirable, as they are the first among tubular valuable mushrooms. In June, when there are still few mosquitoes in the forest, it is pleasant to walk along the nascent green forest strip. At this time, they prefer the southern open sides of the trees and small elevations along the canals and banks of rivers and lakes.

At this time, you can often find the following types of boletus:

• yellow brown
• ordinary
• wading

A photo, description and basic characteristics of boletus mushrooms of all these varieties are presented in this material.

Yellow-brown birch

Where yellow-brown boletus grow (Leccinum versipelle): birch, coniferous and mixed forests.

Season: from June to October.

The hat is fleshy 5-15 cm in diameter, and in some cases up to 20 cm. The shape of the hat is hemispherical with a slightly woolly surface, with age it becomes less convex. Color - yellow-brown or bright orange. Often, the skin hangs over the edge of the hat. The lower surface is finely porous, the pores are light gray, yellow-gray, ocher-gray.

In this species of boletus mushrooms, the leg is thin and long, white in color, covered with black scales along the entire length, and in immature specimens it is dark.

The pulp is dense whitish, in the section it is painted in gray-black color.

Tubular layer up to 2.5 cm thick with very fine white pores.

Variability: the color of the hat varies from light brown to yellow brown and dark brown. As the mushroom ripens, the cap's skin can shrink, exposing the surrounding ducts. The pores and tubes are whitish at first, then yellow-gray. The scales on the leg are gray at first, then almost black.

There are no poisonous doubles. The bile mushrooms (Tylopilus felleus), which have a pinkish tint and have an unpleasant odor and a very bitter taste, are similar to these birch mushrooms.

Cooking Methods: drying, pickling, canning, frying. It is recommended to remove the leg before use, and in older mushrooms - the skin.

Edible, 2nd category.

Look at the yellow-brown boletus in these photos:

Common boletus

When common boletus (Leccinum scabrum) grows: from the beginning of June to the end of October.

Habitats: deciduous, more often birch forests, but found in mixed, singly or in groups.

The hat is fleshy 5-16 cm in diameter, and in some cases up to 25 cm. The shape of the hat is hemispherical, then cushion-shaped, smooth with a slightly fibrous surface. Variable color: grayish, taupe, dark brown, brown. Often, the skin hangs over the edge of the hat.

Leg 7-20 cm, thin and long, cylindrical, slightly thickened down. Young mushrooms are club-shaped. The leg is white with scales that are almost black in mature mushrooms. Leg tissue in old specimens becomes fibrous and stiff. Thickness - 1-3.5 cm.

The pulp is dense whitish or loose. At the break, the color changes slightly to pink or gray-pink with a good smell and taste.

The hymenophore is almost free or hollow, from whitish or grayish to dirty gray in age and consists of tubules 1-2.5 cm long. Pore ​​ducts are small, angularly rounded, whitish.

Variability: the color of the hat varies from light brown to dark brown. As the mushroom ripens, the cap's skin can shrink, exposing the surrounding ducts. The pores and tubes are whitish at first, then yellow-gray. The scales on the leg are gray at first, then almost black.

There are no poisonous doubles. According to the description. this boletus is a bit like a bile fungus (Tylopilus felleus), which has a pinkish tint, it has an unpleasant odor and a very bitter taste.

Cooking Methods: drying, pickling, canning, frying.

Edible, 2nd category.

These photos show what a common boletus boletus looks like:

Marsh boletus

When the mushroom boletus birch (Leccinum nucatum) grows: from July to the end of September.

Habitats: individually and in groups in sphagnum bogs and in moist mixed forests with birch trees, near water bodies.

The hat is 3-10 cm in diameter, and in some cases up to 14 cm, in young mushrooms it is convex, cushion-shaped, then flatter, smooth or slightly wrinkled. A distinctive feature of the species is the walnut or cream-brown color of the hat.

Leg is thin and long, whitish or whitish-cream. The second distinguishing feature of the species is the large scales on the stem, especially in young specimens, when the surface looks very rough and even bumpy.

Height - 5-13 cm, sometimes reaches 18 cm, thickness -1-2.5 cm.

The pulp is soft, white, dense, has a light mushroom aroma. The hymenophore is whitish, with time it becomes grayish.

The tubular layer is 1.2–2.5 cm thick, white in young specimens and dirty grayish later, with rounded-angular pore ducts.

Variability: the color of the hat varies from hazel to light brown. Tubules and pores - from white to gray. The white leg darkens with age, becoming covered with brownish-gray scales.

There are no poisonous doubles. By the color of their hats, these birch mushrooms look like inedible bile mushrooms (Tylopilus felleus), in which the flesh has a pinkish tinge and a bitter taste.

Edible, 2nd category.

Here you can see photos of boletus, the description of which is presented on this page: