The fungus turns blue on the cut - what does it show?

What is the main difference between an experienced mushroom picker and a beginner? The experienced collector distinguishes about a thousand different types of fruit bodies that grow in forests and in the meadows of its climatic zone. He knows what kind of smell produces edible and deadly poisonous mushrooms. He knows the places where they can grow, and the time that is favorable for them. He also knows which mushroom turns blue on the cut, why it happens, and also that some fruit bodies emit milky juice - white or orange. He does not collect his harvest on the roadsides and near industrial zones. After all, fungi absorb all heavy metals and toxic substances. Thus, even the boletus becomes dangerous to health.

Are there distinctive features of edible and poisonous mushrooms?

Unfortunately, only one, but he does not guarantee that you will not dial trash into your box. This is the so-called "bed of death". This is the name of the notch between the foot and the mushroom picking of certain fly agarics and bananas located in the ground. Neither the smell (unpleasant in some edible species) nor taste (neutral for some poisonous ones) can not with certainty say what is before you. The same applies to the sign when the fungus turns blue on the cut. The novice collector simply needs to take a catalog and remember how the boletus, chanterelles, mushrooms and maslings look like, and how - dangerous pallid grebe, fiber, fly agaric and a whole cohort of "false", forged under edible. And even better - a couple of times go to the forest with an experienced person who will show and tell.

Why the fungus turns blue on the cut

Many ignorant people consider this blue as evidence of the virulence of the find, and therefore do not take it into their basket. And in vain! The change in color means only that the oxidation reaction occurs from contact with air. Mushroom flesh can not only turn blue, but also turn green, become black, red, brown. And also start to "bleed" - the lacteal carrot juice, which stands out at the break, frightens inexperienced mushroom pickers from a tasty red.

What mushrooms turn blue on the cut

Very quickly becomes a dark green fracture of the poderezozovik. Ryzhik, which in Russia is called a royal mushroom, and in Ukraine - a trump card (for a smart red-orange color), too, being cut, strongly turns blue. Related to the first category of boletus change color when you press the cap and cut the legs. Not insured against discoloration and mushrooms of the highest category. Even in the glorious cohort of borovikov there are such. For example, very tasty, found in the pine forests of the Polish mushroom. The moss is also turning blue on the cut (another name is the swamp). In the southern part of Russia and in Ukraine in oak forests, acacia and chestnut gaius, there are excellent taste mushrooms, also changing color. They become blue, green, black or brown. This is a speckled oak tree, chestnut. And the bruise becomes blue from just one touch.

To regret, change their color and poisonous mushrooms. So, the deadly Satanic mushroom on the cut turns blue. It is very similar to an ordinary boletus, therefore it causes many poisonings. You can recognize it by a reddish leg and orange pores on the bonnet. If you are frightened by a bluish or dark green color on the cut, touch it with your tongue: inedible mushrooms are bitter.