Rubella mushroom and its photo
Category: conditionally edible.
Hat (diameter 3-9 cm): reddish brown, slightly convex, with time becomes flat or even depressed. Smooth to the touch, but may be slightly wrinkled.
Leg (height 4-9 cm): cylindrical, expanding from bottom to top.
Plates: white, in old mushrooms it can be brown or pinkish. Very fragile, for this reason mushroom pickers do not like to collect rubella.
Pulp: pinkish, with a watery milky sap and a specific smell of bedbugs or burnt rubber. It tastes very bitter.
Doubles: spurge (Lactarius volemus) and bitter (Lactarius rufus). Euphorbia can be distinguished by its large cap size and very abundant milky juice, and bitter by the color of the juice secreted: it is dark brown or burgundy.
The rubella mushroom grows from mid-July to the end of October in temperate European countries. It can grow under the first snow that falls.
Where can I find: rubella mushroom (see photo) is found in deciduous forests next to oaks and beeches.
Eating: the attitude of mushroom pickers to rubella is contradictory. It is classified as conditionally edible mushroom and, after thorough soaking and boiling, it is recommended to salt or pickle.
Application in traditional medicine: does not apply.
Other names: the milk is sweet, the hitchhiker is sweetish.
