Boletus mushrooms are suitable for frying, stewing, canning. They have a very pleasant taste. However, when collecting butter, you need to be extremely careful. These mushrooms, like many others, have their own non-edible counterpart.
False oil can - the mushroom is very poisonous and can cause severe poisoning. In addition, it is quite easy to confuse it with a real oiler. However, upon close inspection, several distinctive features of this fungus can still be detected.
What a real oil can looks like
This delicious mushroom begins to grow in the forests from about mid-June. Oiler mycelium bears fruit 3-5 times during the season.
The last time mushroom pickers can pick these mushrooms in the month of September. Distinctive features of the oiler are:
- light brown or light yellow cap;
- tubular cap layer;
- yellowish-white color of the flesh (like butter).
Boletus grows in groups of several. The space under the cap in young mushrooms of this variety is covered with a thin film. In old ones, this formation is broken and forms a white ring on the leg. Some varieties of boils do not have such formation.
The hats of good real butters are covered with a thin film, which becomes slippery when wet. This is where the name of this mushroom actually came from.
Description of the false oiler
You can distinguish real boletus from their poisonous "brother" first of all by the color of the cap. In false oils, it has a cold, slightly purple hue.
The mushroom found in the forest, among other things, also needs to be turned over. In a false oiler, the bottom surface of the cap is not tubular, but lamellar. In addition, this area in such mushrooms usually has a pronounced creamy yellow color.
Differ in appearance in these two varieties of mushrooms and the ring on the leg. In an ordinary oiler, this formation, as already mentioned, is white. His false "brother" has a ring, like a hat, is slightly purple and hangs down the leg.
Among other things, the ring on the leg of a poisonous mushroom very often looks dried up. In real oils, it almost always remains alive and elastic.
You can also distinguish a false oiler from a real one by the color of the pulp at the break. It is slightly reddish in this mushroom. In addition, the flesh on the cut from false oils usually darkens very quickly.
How not to confuse with a panther fly agaric
The danger of an inexperienced mushroom picker can lie in wait in the forest because of the panther fly agaric. Such mushrooms are also very similar in appearance to boletus, and at the same time they are also extremely poisonous. In this regard, they are even more dangerous than false boletus. And to know how the panther fly agaric looks like a mushroom picker, of course, is also a must.
Adult panther fly agarics can be easily distinguished from butter by the presence of white spots on the cap. In order to distinguish a young fly agaric from an oiler, you should carefully examine its leg. She has a significant thickening at the bottom of this poisonous mushroom.
