World Mushroom Day: useful tips on how to distinguish mushrooms

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World Mushroom Picking Day is celebrated annually on October 3. This holiday is not official, but lovers of “quiet hunting” willingly celebrate it.

World mushroom picker's day was started to draw attention to mushrooms and their nutritional value. The day also unites people from all over the world in the pursuit of caring for ecosystems and respect for ancient mushroom cultivation.

Mushroom Picker's Day reminds us of the importance of preserving natural resources and the consequences of the coexistence of man and nature.

Types of mushrooms:

Edible mushrooms – suitable for eating. Edible mushrooms of Ukraine: buttercups, chanterelles, boletus, boletus, boletus, boletus, boletus, boletus, porcini mushrooms, Polish mushrooms, porcini mushrooms, porcini mushrooms.

Edible mushrooms – toxic substances are lost during heat treatment. These include: mushroom, mushroom, oak mushroom.

Poisonous mushrooms– when eaten, they are life-threatening. Among the most dangerous: pale toadstool, spring toadstool, panther toadstool, stinky toadstool, whitish warbler, false mushroom, satanic mushroom, false buttercup, gall fungus, false chanterelles.

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Signs of poisonous mushrooms :

1. Poisonous mushrooms have unpleasant and sharp smell, it often resembles medicine or chlorine, but edible mushrooms smell pleasant.
2. Poisonous mushrooms often have a bright color.
3. Often, when cutting, the stem of poisonous mushrooms changes its color to an unusual one (blue, purple).
4. Poisonous mushrooms cannot tolerate insects and flies. Therefore, if you see them on the cap, it means that the mushroom is edible.
5. Certain types of mushrooms have a tubular layer. If you find a mushroom without it, it is most likely a poisonous mushroom masquerading as an edible one.
6. If the mushroom raises any doubts, it is better to throw it away.
7. In no case do not taste an unknown mushroom, poisoning can occur instantly.
8. Overgrown mushrooms, as well as those specimens in which it is difficult to determine whether they are poisonous or not, you should not take them.
9. If the leg of the mushroom becomes thick at the bottom – it is better to beware of it.
10. It is better to go into the forest with an experienced mushroom picker, who will show you examples of edible and poisonous mushrooms.

If you follow these simple rules, you will be able to avoid a fatal mistake. Remember that poisonous mushrooms can often cause death.

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