The line is giant and ordinary
Be very careful! Among the lines there are both edible and poisonous species. Giant lines are surprisingly tender and tasty mushrooms, and ordinary lines are poisonous. Distinguishing them is very simple: poisonous ordinary stitches have a dark brown-chestnut or brownish curly hat and a straight and long stalk, and edible giant stitches have a very wide bumpy stalk, which is why they got this name, and they are much lighter in color in color - yellowish. As you can see, the mushrooms of the line look differently, so it’s difficult to make mistakes when collecting them.
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Description line of giant
Habitats of giant lines (Gyromitra gigas): in deciduous and mixed with birch forests, on humus-rich soil, they grow in small groups or singly.
Season: April May.
The hat has a height of 4-8 cm, and the entire mushroom has a height of up to 15 cm, and a thickness even greater - up to 30 cm.The distinctive property of the species is a shapeless brain-shaped hat with a folded-wavy surface, and the transverse dimensions of the mushroom are larger than the height.
As you can see in the photo, the color of the cap for this mushroom is light brown; the cap is attached to the leg:
The leg has a height of 3-7 cm, and the thickness is more than 6-10 cm. The leg is oval in cross section, its color is off-white.
Pulp: white or grayish, without any particular taste or smell.
Records. The leg in the upper part immediately turns into a hat, so there are no plates as such.
Variability. The color of the hat varies from light brown, later to dark brown and reddish brown.
Similar views. The giant edible line remotely resembles the inedible and painful stomach line, an ordinary line (Gyromitra esculenta), which is distinguished by a not so massive leg and a brown-chestnut hat.
Edibility: pre-cooked for at least 25 minutes, after which they are fried, boiled, canned.
Edible, 3rd and 4th category.
These photos show how giant line mushrooms look:
What does an ordinary line look like?
Common line habitats (Gyromitra esculenta): on sandy soil in mixed forests, among grass and near rotting wood, they grow in small groups or singly.
Season: April May.
The hat has a diameter of 3-10 cm, spherical shape. A distinctive feature of the species is the shapeless brain-folded hat of a dark chestnut or brownish-brown color. The hat, in some places grown with a leg.
The leg is short, thick, has a height of 2-6 cm, a thickness of 15-30 mm, furrowed or folded, hollow, first white, later ivory, has longitudinal grooves.
Pulp: whitish, stiff, without much taste and smell.
Records. The leg in the upper part immediately turns into a hat, so there are no plates as such.
Variability. The color of the hat varies from brown-chestnut to pink-chestnut and brown-brown.
Similar views.The inedible ordinary stitch by description differs from the edible giant stitch (Gyromitra gigas). The giant has a massive leg of oval or irregular shape with a cross section greater than the height of the fungus.
Toxic, toxic.
Here you can see a photo of the mushrooms of the lines of both species, the description of which is presented above:
The main useful properties of lines
How amazing are the whims and surprises of nature! Ordinary lines have excellent healing properties, despite the fact that they are poisonous. Great use and giant lines.
The main healing properties of the lines are:
- Lines have an analgesic property and relieve pain.
- Line tinctures are used to treat and relieve pain in joint diseases, arthritis, radiculitis, rheumatism, polyarthritis, osteochondrosis, and spurs of the feet.
- Treatment of overgrown bones.
- Treatment of pancreatitis and pancreas.
- Treatment of cancer up to the later stages, when pain relief is required.
- Tincture is made from crushed mushrooms (about 10 grams), they are poured with 150 g of good vodka, stirred and insisted in the refrigerator for 2 weeks. Then rub the tincture into sore spots and cover the body with a warm woolen scarf.
