Which mushroom on the cut turns blue: to help mushroom pickers

How often did you find unfamiliar mushrooms? For sure, every lover of "quiet hunting" encountered this. To distinguish edible species from poisonous will help a number of signs. Let's try to figure out which mushroom on the cut turns blue.

First, it should immediately be stipulated that there are many tubular and lamellar species that change the color of the pulp on the cut. This is due to the oxidation in the air of certain substances that make up the composition. The fungus, blue on the cut, can be either a delicious sub-synovial, or a poisonous false white. The latter is one of the most dangerous, containing a huge amount of toxins and causing severe poisoning.

Warning: dangerous duplicates

If you do not know which mushroom turns blue at the cut, but such a handsome man has met on your way, be extremely careful. This is the so-called "satanic mushroom", or false white. Outwardly, he really has a resemblance to a mushroom. The same dense fleshy leg, a convex bonnet, but there are a number of differences! White mushroom on the cut does not change color. The flesh of the poisonous twin instantly turns blue or turns pink. In addition, the foot of the satanic fungus is covered with a pronounced mesh, and the color is much brighter than that of the fungus.

Another false white is the bitter. Poison them much more difficult because of the taste. Compared to white fungus, the bitter has a thinner stem, a blue or pinkish flesh and a hideous bitter taste.

Edible species

To find out which fungus on the cut turns blue, one should also consider edible species that occur quite often. These are tubular varieties: the boletus, the podberezovik, the Polish mushroom.

The fruiting body of the boletus becomes instantly blue on the cut, with both the leg and the hat darkening. Because of this, the boletus looks ugly in dishes, but it has an excellent taste and a wonderful aroma. You can learn it by a bright red hat and a gray mesh leg.

In the pads, the leg turns blue, but not so clearly, and the cap is completely white at the cut. The fruiting body consists of a long leg (in a diameter of 1-1.5 cm) and a brown convex cap. Color can range from light (almost white) to dark chestnut. Leg is always gray, with hardly noticeable scales.

The rarest "blue" mushroom

Much rarer are specimens known as "Polish mushroom", or poddubovik. This is a real find, because they can be found only in deciduous, mostly oak forests. Since its pulp varies greatly in color, it is important to know which mushroom on the cut turns blue. According to experienced mushroom pickers, poddubikov instantly change color on a cut, becoming dark blue or even purple. However, in drying this color disappears.

Outwardly poddubovik can be confused with white, and with a boletus. But if you look closely, it's easy to see that the Polish mushroom's hat is always open, even if it's squatted, especially in old fruit bodies. The flesh is tender, has a pleasant taste, which is often damaged by worms. The surface color of the cap is noble brown, coffee, rich chestnut. In a moist environment the peel shines, but does not stick to the hands. On the reverse side, the tubular layer is yellow, in mature fruit bodies it is green with a shade, it becomes blue when pressed. In Europe it grows in oak groves, but in Russia it can be found in conifers, but this is a rarity.