Mushroom flywheel: photo and description of a green flywheel, what a red and fissured flywheel looks like
Mushrooms and mushrooms are delicious both boiled and fried. They are very often used for various pickles. Because of their taste, these gifts of the forest are very popular among mushroom pickers. However, it is important to know how to tell the flywheel apart from other mushrooms that may be inedible.
On this page you will find out what the mushrooms look like and how the green flywheel differs from the fissured and red flywheel. You can also get acquainted with the photo and description of the flywheel mushroom and get information about its counterparts.
What does a green flywheel mushroom look like?
Category: edible.
The name of the mushroom speaks for itself about what a green flywheel looks like. Hat (diameter 4-12 cm): usually greenish-gray or olive, maybe slightly brown. Slightly convex in shape, velvety to the touch.
Leg (height 3-11 cm): in the form of a cylinder, expands from bottom to top, can be with a brownish mesh.
Pay attention to the photo of green flywheel pulp: it is white, and may turn slightly blue when cut.
Despite its rather noble description, the flywheel mushroom is very often covered with mold, which can be dangerous for humans. Therefore, it is very important to pick mushrooms without mold.
When it grows: from mid-May to early October throughout Russia, as well as in European countries, North America and Australia.
Where can I find: in all types of forests.
Eating: a very tasty mushroom in boiled, fried and pickled form, however, it is not suitable for long-term storage (it turns black when dried). Best eaten immediately after preparation.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Mushroom red flywheel: photo and other names
Category: edible.
Xerocomus rubellus hat (diameter 3-9 cm): red, crimson or brown.
Look at the photo of what a red flywheel looks like at a young age: the cap of small mushrooms is convex, shiny. Over time, it almost straightens out. The peel is hardly separated from the pulp, after prolonged dry weather it can become covered with a network of small cracks.
Leg (height 4-12 cm): crimson, red or pinkish, slightly lighter than the cap, may be yellowish on top. Covered with small scales, expands from bottom to top, has the shape of a cylinder, solid.
Tubular layer: yellow or with a greenish or olive tint. Under strong pressure, it turns blue.
As you can see in the photo of a red flyworm, this mushroom has a very dense, yellow flesh, noticeably blue when cut and when interacting with air.
When it grows: from the beginning of August to the end of September on the Eurasian continent and in Asia. Found in North America, but very rare.
Where can I find: on the soils of deciduous forests among low grass or moss, usually next to oak trees.
Eating: a very tasty mushroom, but it darkens noticeably when dried, so it is recommended to use it pickled or fried.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names for the red flywheel: boletus is reddening, boletus is red, red is sore, flywheel is reddish, flywheel is reddening.
Fractured flywheel mushroom: photo and description
Category: edible.
Xerocomus chrysenteron hat (diameter 3-11 cm): matte, olive, burgundy or brown.
If you look closely at the photo of a fissured flywheel, you will notice a barely noticeable mesh pattern and a network of wrinkles. Because of this, the mushroom got its name. In a mature mushroom, it has the shape of a swollen pillow, but it may also be slightly depressed in the center. Velvety to the touch.
Leg (height 5-12 cm): yellowish above, and red-burgundy below, covered with small scales, solid (in old mushrooms it can be hollow), has the shape of a club.
Tubular layer: cream, yellow or olive, turns blue at the point of pressure.
Pulp: white or yellowish, strongly blue at the cut or fracture site. Does not have a pronounced smell and taste.
When it grows: from early July to mid-September in Europe and the Far East.
Where can I find: on acidic soils of all types of forests, especially near beeches and oaks.
Eating: in salted and dried form.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names: yellow flywheel, meat yellow flywheel, perennial boletus.
How to distinguish a flywheel from twins
Double flywheel greenvariegated flywheel (Xerocomus chrysenteron)... This mushroom can be distinguished by a thin and reddish pigment layer under the skin.
Twins of the red flywheel - polish mushroom (Xerocomus badius) and fissured flywheel (Xerocomus chrysenteron). But the Polish mushroom, which is most often found next to conifers - spruce or pine, has a darker cap color. And the leg of the fissured flyworm has an intense reddish tint and also mainly grows in coniferous forests.
Another twin of the fissured flywheel -pink-footed flywheel (Xerocomus trancatus)... This mushroom differs only in that it grows exclusively in deciduous forests.
