Mushroom grabber and his photo
Category: edible.
Hat (diameter 8-15 cm): usually brownish brown or olive, shiny in wet weather. It has the shape of a hemisphere, but over time it becomes flatter and cushion-shaped. A little rough to the touch, with slight irregularities. In old mushrooms, the skin shrinks so much that the flesh becomes visible.
Leg (height 4-14 cm): usually brown or yellow-brown, darker closer to the ground, noticeably lighter at the cap itself. Thickened towards the base, it has the shape of a cylinder.
Pulp: fibrous and tough, quickly turns pinkish on cut, and then almost black.
Tubular layer: very loose, with small indentations. The pores are small and rounded.
Doubles: edible boletus and inedible gall mushroom (Tylopilus felleus) with a characteristic mesh on the leg.
When it grows: from mid-June to early October, in Russia, mainly in the Caucasus and in the southern regions.
The photo above shows a hornbeam mushroom, and you can find it in deciduous forests, often in the vicinity of hornbeams, birches and poplars.
Eating: delicious in almost any form.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names: gray boletus, elm boletus, gray boletus.
