Mushroom rowing yellow-red (blushing)

Yellow-red rowing (Tricholomopsis rutilans) or yellow-red honey agarics captivates fans of the "quiet hunt" with its beautiful appearance and mushroom smell. It grows from late summer to mid-autumn on the roots of conifers or near rotten stumps. Many beginner mushroom pickers have a question: is edible mushroom blushing, is it worth it to collect?

False or edible mushroom rowing yellow-red?

For most mushroom pickers, the yellowish-red row, the photo of which can be viewed below, is a little-known mushroom. After all, the main commandment is to take only well-known mushrooms. On the other hand, the blushing row looks edible. How to understand these issues and how to understand whether the false row is yellow-red?

Note that in some scientific sources this fungus is classified as conditionally edible species, and in others as inedible. This unflattering judgment is usually associated with the bitter taste of the pulp, especially in adult specimens. However, after boiling from bitterness, it is possible to get rid. Experienced mushroom pickers consider the row yellow-red edible mushroom and successfully include it in their daily menu.

This article will allow you to familiarize yourself with the detailed description and photo of the yellow-red rowing mushroom.

Yellow-red mushroom (tricholomopsis rutilans): photo and description

Latin name: Tricholomopsis rutilans.

Family: Ordinary.

Synonyms: honeyfish red or yellow-red, row blush or red.

Hat: has a yellow skin with red or red-lilac scales. It seems that it is strewn with a lot of small red dots and villi. Therefore, the hat appears orange-red or yellow-red. In the adult state of the fungus, the scales remain on the hat only in the center. At a young age, the hat has a convex shape, which eventually changes to flat. The diameter is from 3 to 10 cm and even up to 15 cm. The photo and description of the rowing of yellow-red will show all the differences of the mushroom cap from inedible doubles.

Leg: dense, yellowish hue with a height of 10-12 cm and a diameter of 0.5 to 2.5 cm. Across the entire leg there are numerous longitudinal scales of purple color. At a young age, the leg is continuous, then becomes hollow and curved, thickens to the base.

Pulp: bright yellow with a pleasant smell of wood. The flesh is denser in the hat, and in the leg with a looser texture and fibrous structure, bitter. A photo of the yellow-red rowing mushroom will show the distinctive features of the pulp of this mushroom.

Records: yellow, sinuous, narrow and rooted.

Edibility: blushing row - an edible mushroom that belongs to 4 categories. It requires preliminary boiling for 40 minutes to remove the bitterness.

Similarities and differences: the description of the yellow-red row is reminiscent of the description of the poisonous and bitter brick-red honey worm. The main difference between the honey red brick mushroom and the yellow-red rowing mushroom is the presence on the plates of a thin spider webs with fringe residues, which looks like rare flakes on the leg. The plates are white, gray or greenish-yellow, in adults - brown-green and even black-green. The hat of poisonous brick red mushrooms has the shape of a bell, later becoming more rounded.Leg curved, fused at the bottom with neighboring mushrooms.

Spread: The photo of the blushing row clearly shows that the fungus prefers conifers and settles in their roots or near stumps. The fruiting time begins from late August to early November. It grows in temperate zones throughout Russia, Europe and North America.

Pay attention to the video of the yellow-red rowing in natural conditions in a pine forest: