How to distinguish false honey agarics from the edible

To arrival of fall mushroom pickers always rejoice, after all there comes the time all favourite honey agarics which can be preserved for the winter, to fry, cook and dry. Not all know, honey agarics false are how dangerous. How to distinguish false honey agarics from edible that long-awaited silent hunting did not become an occasion of immediate hospitalization?

For a start it is worth knowing, what not all types of false honey agarics are poisonous, and some of them are suitable in food. But, having armed with this knowledge, you should not gather all mushrooms. After all the rule of the mushroom picker "you do not know the main thing, do not take" it is worth observing always. For the skilled mushroom picker it is possible to distinguish edible and inedible fungi. And here inexperienced it is necessary to know how honey agarics edible look, and than they differ from the false.

Edible honey agarics have five main signs:

1. On a leg of an edible honey agaric, just level with bottom edge of a hat, there is a ringlet from a film. At young honey agarics this film covers the lower part of a hat, at adults hangs down round a leg a small short skirt.
2. The hat of young edible honey agarics is covered with small, darkish scales. At adult mushrooms they vanish.
3. Edible honey agarics do not happen so bright, as their false colleagues. They meet always only light, brownish-beige color.
4. Smell at an edible honey agaric usual, mushroom. Inedible false honey agarics unpleasantly smell as the wet earth or a mold.
5. Plates on the lower part of a hat at an edible honey agaric cream or yellow-white. At false honey agarics they yellow, greenish or even the olive-black.

How edible honey agarics look?

How to distinguish false honey agarics from edible, in what season it is possible to meet them are the main things which should be remembered when collecting mushrooms.

Honey agaric the false sulfur-yellow

False honey agarics sulfur-yellow can be met from May to October. They grow groups on trunks of the decaying trees, on stubs or near them.

As honey agarics false sulfur-yellow look

• At young mushrooms the hat has curved edges, and its lower part is tightened by a pautinisty cover.
• With age in the center of a hat there is a hillock, it becomes dry and smooth and has to 6 cm a diameter.
• Color of a hat can vary from age of a mushroom and a place where it grows: in the center it dark orange color, and at the edges flavovirent or yellow okhryanaya.
• Plates on inside of a hat of sulfur-yellow color, later they change color on black with small violet outflow.
• The leg of a false honey agaric of a cylindrical form surrounded with a fibrous ring of brown color. Color of a leg coincides with color of a hat.
• The false honey agaric sulfur-yellow can be distinguished from the present on a smell. At the false - an unpleasant steady smell.

These mushrooms resemble autumn and winter honey agarics superficially. However they differ in that false honey agarics have no scales which are always present on hats of edible honey agarics. Also edible honey agarics will never have plates of greenish or sulfur-yellow color. They remain light, cream or light yellow color.

The sulfur-yellow false honey agaric is considered slaboyadovity, poisoning with these mushrooms leads to diarrhea and intestines pains.

How to distinguish a honey agaric false sulfur-yellow from an edible honey agaric?

Honey agaric false seroplastinchaty

Seroplastinchaty false honey agarics grow since the end of August and until the end of October. They prefer to lodge on the decaying trunks of coniferous trees, stubs, roots, dead wood or on the earth.

As honey agarics false seroplastinchaty look

• Hat young mushrooms convex, in the lower part have a cover which tightens it.
• With age the hat is straightened and has a diameter of 8 cm.
• Color of a hat of young mushrooms - pale yellow, further it changes color on rusty-brown with light edges.
• The hat of a seroplastinchaty honey agaric differs from edible in a smooth damp surface. During wet weather it becomes bonding.
• The leg of a false honey agaric can reach in height of 10 cm, and in the diameter of 0,5 cm.

Seroplastinchaty false honey agarics are considered conditionally edible, they can be pickled, salted, dried and used for preparation of various dishes, but previously it is necessary to boil thoroughly them well.

Honey agaric the false brick-red

False honey agarics brick-red grow big groups on the decaying stubs and dead wood. Like to grow in deciduous and coniferous forests, meet on plains and in mountains. These false honey agarics grow almost all year, are absent only in the period of winter frosts.

As honey agarics false brick-red look

• The hat at young mushrooms spherical, changes on the hemispherical with age.
• Color of a hat - brick-red. It smooth and dry, light shade at the edges.
• Young mushrooms have a pautinisty cover on hat inside. With age it vanishes, its remains hang down at the edges of a hat.
• Plates on inside of a hat change color: at first they a yellowish shade, become then olive and in the end get chocolate color.
• Leg of a honey agaric brick-red thin, hollow inside, curved.
• These mushrooms have no smell, the pulp has bitterish taste.

In Japan and the USA this mushroom is considered edible.

Despite conventions that some types of false honey agarics are considered edible, you should not experiment and eat them. Therefore remember that at all false honey agarics are absent: scales on hats and a film ring on a leg. Before to go to the wood for mushrooms, remember as honey agarics false look, and find out, where and when they can meet to you. Remember that only knowing how to distinguish false honey agarics, you can avoid a serious poisoning