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Edible polypores are inhabitants of mixed forests. In order to collect them, you do not need to bend over - these mushrooms grow on trees (closer to the base) and on stumps. Very often, ignorant people simply ignore them, but experienced mushroom pickers will never pass by - skilled housewives from tinder fungus can cook delicious dishes, dry and salt them.

Photos and descriptions of various species of tinder fungi will help you learn better about the variety of forest gifts.

Tinder fungus and its photo

Fruiting body branched tinder fungus(Polyporus umbellatus) up to 50 cm in diameter, consists of multi-layered branched legs with small white caps. All branches are collected at the base in a tuberous stem.

One mushroom has a lot of caps, 10-200 pieces, the diameter of each cap is up to 4 cm. The shape of the caps of a young mushroom is round, then flat-convex, with a small depression in the center. The color of the caps is light brown or grayish brown.

As you can see in the photo, in the branched tinder fungus, the pulp is white, fleshy, in the old ones it is coarse, leathery, with the smell of dill. The lower part of the cap is white, tubular, the tubes are short. Spore powder is white.

Grows in mixed forests at the base of the trunks and stumps of deciduous trees.

Collection time - from August to November.

They are eaten fresh, dried and salted, preferably young mushrooms, the old ones use only a hat.

Tinder fungus winter

Hat tinder fungus winter(Polyporus brumalis) up to 10 cm in diameter, in a young mushroom it is soft, elastic, convex, then leathery, flat. The surface of the cap is yellow, gray-brown, dirty brown, then pale. The underside is tubular, the tubes are short, whitish, creamy in old mushrooms. Spore powder is white. Leg up to 6 cm tall, dense, yellowish gray, velvety brown.

Grows in mixed forests on the trunks and stumps of deciduous trees: willow, birch, alder, mountain ash.

Occurs from spring to autumn frosts.

Young caps are edible. Mushroom pickers hardly ever collect this mushroom.

Here you can see photos of edible tinder fungi of various types.

Tinder fungus sulfur-yellow: photo and description

By description sulfur yellow tinder fungus (Laetiporus sulphureus) similar to their fellows. His cap is up to 12 cm, rounded, or in the form of fan-shaped plates, often fused into tiled masses, covered with a thin orange peel with a pinkish tinge, with age, the color fades and becomes pale ocher. Sitting or short-stemmed hats.

Look at the photo of a sulfur-yellow tinder fungus: the pulp of the mushroom is yellowish, with a pleasant mushroom smell. A young tinder fungus has a friable, fleshy, damp-like flesh.

Spore powder is light yellow.

Grows in mixed and deciduous forests on living and dead deciduous tree trunks.

Occurs from mid-May to late August.

Only young fresh mushrooms, pre-boiled, are eaten. They are boiled and fried. They are used for salads and as a filling for pies.