False sulfur yellow honey agaric: photo and description

Honey mushrooms are called so because they grow on stumps, fallen trees, as well as on decayed or dead wood of deciduous trees. Only meadow honey agaric grows not in the forest, but on grassy areas: forest glades, fields, gardens or roadsides. Although there are about thirty species of honey mushrooms, mushroom pickers divide them into summer, autumn and winter groups. Most mushrooms can be safely eaten.

It is worth saying that in addition to the edible and conditionally edible “relatives”, the honey agar also has a poisonous false double - the honey agar sulfur-yellow. If conditionally edible go to food, then they are pre-soaked, then boiled and only then dishes are prepared from them. However, poisonous false counterparts can be harmful to human health. We suggest you look at the photo of the sulfur-yellow honey fly and compare it with real honey mushrooms.

Some novice mushroom pickers often ask the question: is a sulfur-yellow honey agaric edible? We will answer right away - no, although it is very similar to a real summer honey fly. In addition, the fruiting of a false honey agaric is the same as that of its summer "relative". They also grow on stumps and deadwoods in large families, mainly in deciduous forests.

What does a sulfur yellow honey look like?

To find out what this mushroom looks like, check out the description of the false sulfuric yellow honey agaric from the photo.

Latin name: Hypholoma fasciculare;

Gender: Hypholoma;

Family: Strophariaceat;

Hat: diameter from 2 to 7 cm, at a young age it resembles a bell, then it evens out, becomes brown or gray-yellow. The edges are lighter, and the center is dark or reddish-brown. With age, tubercles appear in the center of the hats, and the hats themselves become dry and smooth.

Leg: has a length of about 10 cm, in diameter from 0.2 to 0.5 cm, hollow, smooth, light yellow in color, fibrous.

Pulp: it has a bitter taste, an unpleasant odor, the color is light yellow or whitish.

Records: adhered to the pedicle, very frequent and thin. The spores are smooth and ellipsoidal, the spore powder has a chocolate brown color. At a young age, the mushroom's plates are sulfur-yellow, subsequently green or black-olive, even reaches a dark violet-brown color.

Edibility: poisonous honey agaric, when used after 1.5 - 5 hours, vomiting occurs, nausea, a person loses consciousness. Even with a long heat treatment, the mushroom poisons do not collapse, and with prolonged storage during conservation, the number of poisons only increases.

Harvest Season: from July to November, the peak falls in August - September.

Category: poisonous mushroom.

Spread: practically throughout Russia, except for permafrost regions. It grows in large bunches on stumps or trees covered with moss, sometimes at the base of dried or even living trees. Prefers both deciduous and coniferous forests. Often found on lying tree trunks.

Differences of false mushrooms of gray-yellow color from edible

False honey agaric sulfur-yellow at a young age has a “blanket” in the form of a ringlet on its leg. However, over time, it disappears, and along the edge of the cap remain tattered in the form of a webbed fringe. In addition, on the leg and hat of false honey mushrooms of gray-yellow color there are never scales that are found in edible fungi.

It is worth noting that the false mushrooms mushrooms sulfur-yellow have a very stable unpleasant odor. Although these mushrooms are poisonous, however, they are not as dangerous as other false mushrooms - galeries, whose poison is similar to the poison of a pale toadstool.

All methods for distinguishing edible mushrooms from honey mushrooms and sulfur yellow, which are listed above, should be used very carefully. The most important sign is the presence of a “skirt” on the leg of edible mushrooms and its absence in false ones. However, even in this case, if the mushroom picker is not sure about the mushroom, it is better not to take it.