Cow's lips are dangerous and poisonous mushrooms

Cow's lips are mushrooms, which people still call "dunki". Scientifically, they are called pigs thin (Paxillus involutus). Cow's lips are mushrooms, which were previously considered conditionally edible. However, after several cases of poisonings and more detailed studies, they were attributed to poisonous ones.

Description

The mushroom of the cow's lip has a hat up to 10 cm in diameter. At a young age it is olive-brown, small-bodied and slightly convex, and then ochristo-brown, flattened, dry, smooth, matte with edges curved downwards, and a funnel in the center. In rainy weather, the hat is very slippery. Plates brown, frequent and easily separated. When pressed, they become brown. The stem of the fungus is solid, cylindrical. Its diameter is 1-2 cm, and its height is 3-6 cm. The flesh of Macromycetes is juicy, dense, sourish to taste, soft, without pronounced smell. At first it has a light yellow color, but later acquires a rusty-brown or yellowish-brown color. The spores are smooth, short-ellipsoidal. Their powder is ocher-brown.

Habitat

Cow's lips are mushrooms that grow in groups in deciduous and coniferous forests. They can be found under oaks, beeches, aspens, birches, in shrubbery, in gardens, near marshes, on felling areas and old anthills. Macromycete prefers small forests, where there is enough light. The cow's lips bear fruit in the period May-November. Mushroom loves high humidity.

Doubles

Cow's lips are mushrooms, which can be confused with some forms of gingerbread. However, the latter is characterized by the release of milky juice at the site of slices and cuts. The thin pig also resembles the orange-red (tuberculate) spiderweb. This macromycete is deadly poisonous. Its toxins destroy the kidneys and liver. The orange-red spider web grows in groups in moist spruce forests, in bilberry or thick sphagnum. From a thin pig, this macromycete is marked by a pronounced dark brown color, a cap with a small pointed tubercle, and also sparse and thick plates. On the stalk there are transverse bands of yellow color.

Eating

Not so long ago mushrooms cow lips belonged to conditionally edible low value macromycetes. But after more cases of severe swine poisoning (often fatal) abroad and in the Russian Federation, additional studies were carried out. They showed that the cow's lips contain toxins that are not destroyed during heat treatment. One of them is muscarin - a toxin similar to the poison of red fly agaric. In humans, it causes diarrhea, vomiting, increased sweating and salivation, slowing the rhythm of the heart. The pigs are not very poisonous, but with the regular use of these fungi and the accumulation in the body of large doses of toxin, pulmonary edema and respiratory failure are possible.

In addition, thin pigs contain an antigen to which the human body reacts by the formation of agglutinins - antibodies, which, when a certain threshold is exceeded, can destroy erythrocytes. An interesting feature is that poisoning does not occur immediately. Everything depends on the individual characteristics of the particular organism. Some people can only be poisoned after years of using cow's lips, while others are more sensitive to them, and so poisoning comes quickly.