The term "aspen" in modern botany and cooking means several varieties of mushrooms. All of them are edible and almost identical in their taste, but some mushroom pickers, nevertheless, believe that certain varieties are tastier than others.
Instructions
Step 1
Outwardly, it is quite simple to identify boletus in the forest. They usually have an orange, red or brown cap and a blue flesh on the cut. These mushrooms differ from boletus mushrooms similar in appearance to them in a rather stocky and thick leg. But it must also be remembered that, along with external signs, one cannot 100% rely on the place of growth of aspen mushrooms. This name was given to them not only because of the proximity to aspens, but also for the reason that mushroom caps are similar in color to the leaves of this tree falling in autumn, which can be found under other plants, for example, because of the wind.
Step 2
It is not always easy to navigate which boletus is in front of you, but it is still possible. For example, the appearance of a red boletus is very characteristic: the cap is hemispherical with an average diameter of 18-25 cm. It easily gets off the leg and has a reddish brown, red or orange tint; the flesh is very fleshy and firm, with a white color on the cut, which quickly changes to bluish. Red boletus has no noticeable taste and smell. The tubular layer under the cap is white, with tubes darkening from touch; the leg is solid, very massive, gray or white, with noticeable scales.
Step 3
External characteristics of a yellow-brown boletus: a hemisphere-shaped hat up to 25 cm in size, painted in yellow, orange or yellow-brown color, with overhanging edges; the flesh is white and dense, at first it turns pink on the cut, and then turns blue or even turns purple; the tubular layer is grayish or olive; the leg is stocky, with a noticeable thickening underneath.
Step 4
Another type of boletus (the rarest of all) is white. This is a mushroom with an average diameter of 15 cm, shaped like a pillow; usually white, but shades of gray and pink are also possible; the stem of the fungus is rather high, clavate, with gray or brown scales; the tubular layer under the cap is white-gray or slightly yellowish; the initially white flesh on the cut turns blue or even blackens.
Step 5
The colored-legged boletus has a pronounced and convex pink cap with a smooth surface; white or pinkish tubules; a smooth cylindrical leg with the same as in other boletus, pronounced scales almost along the entire length; the pulp is initially white and dense, occasionally ocher or yellowish, which changes its color to blue at the point of a cut with a knife or a break.
