Photo and description tinder fungus

Edible polypore - the "inhabitants" of mixed forests. In order to collect them, you do not need to bend down - these mushrooms grow on trees (closer to the base) and on stumps. Very often, unaware people simply ignore them, but experienced mushroom pickers will never pass by - skillful housewives can prepare delicious dishes, dry and salt them out of tinder mushrooms.

Photos and descriptions of fungi of various tinder fungi will help you better learn about the diversity of forest gifts.

Branched fungus and his photo

Fruit body branched tinder fungus (Polyporus umbellatus) up to 50 cm in diameter, consists of multi-layer branched legs with small white hats. All branches are collected at the base in a tuberous leg.

One mushroom has many hats, 10-200 pieces, the diameter of each hat is up to 4 cm. The shape of the young mushroom's hats is round, then flat-convex, with a small indentation in the center. The color of the hats is light brown or grayish brown.

As you can see in the photo, the branched tinder is fleshy white, fleshy, old coarse, leathery, with the smell of dill. The lower part of the cap is white, tubular, the tubes are short. Spore powder is white.

Grows in mixed forests at the base of trunks and stumps of deciduous trees.

Pick time - from August to November.

They are eaten fresh, dried and salty, preferably young mushrooms, in old ones they use only a hat.

Mushroom tinder fungus winter

Hat winter fungus (Polyporus brumalis) up to 10 cm in diameter, the young mushroom is soft, elastic, convex, then leathery, flat. The surface of the hat is yellow, gray-brown, dirty brown, then pale. The underside is tubular, the tubules are short, whitish, creamy in old mushrooms. Spore powder is white. Leg up to 6 cm tall, dense, yellowish-gray, velvety brown.

Grows in mixed forests on trunks and stumps of deciduous trees: willow, birch, alder, mountain ash.

It occurs from spring to autumn frosts.

Young hats are edible. Mushroom pickers almost do not collect this mushroom.

Here you can see photos of edible fungi of tinder fungi of various species.

Tinder funnel sulfur-yellow: photo and description

By description sulfur yellow tinder (Laetiporus sulphureus) similar to his brothers. His hat is up to 12 cm round, or in the form of fan-shaped plates, often fused to tile-like masses, covered with a thin orange-skinned skin with a pinkish tinge, with age the color fades and becomes pale ocher. Hats are sedentary or on a short leg.

Look at the photo of sulfur-yellow tinder fungus: the mushroom flesh is yellowish, with a pleasant mushroom smell. The young tinder is fleshy, fleshy, damp-shaped.

Spore powder is light yellow.

It grows in mixed and deciduous forests on live and dead trunks of deciduous trees.

It occurs from mid-May to the end of August.

Only fresh, freshly boiled mushrooms are eaten. They are boiled and fried. Use for salads and as a filling for pies.