Mushroom Valui: photos and description
Below you can find out what the Valui mushroom looks like in the photo, where and when to collect the Valui mushrooms and how to cook them.
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What does the value look like: photo of the mushroom with a description
Category: conditionally edible.
Hat (height 2-5 cm, diameter 7-14 cm): mostly light brown, with a depression in the center. It has the shape of a hemisphere, with time it becomes flatter. It’s slippery to the touch.
Leg height 5-13 cm, diameter up to 3.5 cm.
Pay attention to the photo of the valuy: the leg of the mushroom is in the form of a cylinder or a barrel, sometimes hollow, but usually dense. Old mushrooms are friable. The base may be covered with dark spots.
Records: very frequent and long, mostly cream or off-white. A yellowish liquid is secreted, which leaves spots on the leg.
Pulp: it is white on the cut and emits a smell of rancid oil, darkens noticeably with time.
According to the photo and description, the valui mushrooms are similar to almond russula (Russula laurocerasii). Russula differs from the value in smell similar to almond.
Where and when to harvest valui mushrooms
Valuy grows from mid-July to early October in the forests of the Eurasian continent and North America. It is found in Russia in the North Caucasus, the Far Eastern District and Western Siberia.
Valui mushrooms are best harvested in darkened forests with high humidity, often in the vicinity of birches.
Eating: after removing the bitter skin and a long soak. Europeans consider this mushroom to be tasteless, and in Russia it is traditionally salted and pickled, and mushroom caviar is prepared in Belarus and Ukraine.
Application in traditional medicine: not applicable.
Other names: russia is smelly, goby, mushroom-placun, pig, pig, snot (remember the description of the valuya - the mushroom is slippery to the touch). Valuy is also often called a cam or kulbik.
