White wave or whitewash the mushroom is not very attractive in taste, grows, like many other large waves, next to birches. Distinctive features useful for mushroom pickers are pale color and “wool” on a hat.
Where the white wave grows (Lactarius Pubescens)
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Always a white wave grows next to birches. The type of mushrooms is rarely seen, but if you are lucky, they meet more dozen specimens in one group. Mycorious companion of birches appears not only where trees grow in boreal and Saturday ecosystems, but also in places where birches are used as a decorative plant.
The toxicity of the whitish
It is unlikely that the use of white waves will lead to death or a prolonged clinical disease, but this is a conditionally edible look. White wave looks like a smaller, pale and rather very trimmed version of the mushroom as complicated in the gastrointestinal tract called the pink wave (lactarius torminosus). Collect these species for food and prepare in Eurasia. In other countries, people bypass mushrooms.
How to cook white waves
A conditionally sedimentary appearance requires a long soaking, draining of water, boiling-a prolonged and time-consuming procedure. You will receive a product without remarkable taste as a reward. Collect this mushroom when a really lean year and there is nothing to put in a basket.
Etymology of the generic name
The name Lactarius means “breastfeeding” (breastfeeding) a reference to milk that is released from the gills of mushrooms when they are cut or torn. The definition of PubesCens comes from the Latin name of thin fluffy hairs that bordinate the hats of mushrooms.
The appearance of the whitish
In the diameter, a convex hat is from 5 to 15 cm, with age it is slightly pressed. Her color is from dark yellow to pale pink. The edge of the villi is especially distinguished at the edges, which usually decorate not pronounced pinkish circular rims and brown-sized zone closer to the center. A fragile, white, thickened peel is located under a vile cutter.
White gills are lowered on the leg, painted in a weak salmon-pink color, when damaged, white latex does not change over time.
Note: One of the subspecies of the wave of white lactarius Pubescens Var. Betulae is found next to decorative birches, his milk is initially white, but then stained in yellow.
A leg with a diameter of 10 to 23 mm and a height of 3 to 6 cm, more or less even throughout, but usually a little narrowed to the base. The leg is painted in the tone of the hat, the surface is dry, bald, continuous, rarely with vague brownish spots.
Disputes 6.5-8 x 5.5-6.5 microns, ellipsoidal, decorated with small amyloid warts and low ridges with several transverse threads that form an irregular network.
Spore printing of ivory, sometimes with a weak salmon-pink tint.
White wave releases a light smell of turpentine (some talk about pelargonium) when the body of the mushroom is damaged), the taste of the pulp is acute.
The habitat of the wave of white, the role in nature
Ectomicorous mushroom grows under birches on lawns, in parks and wastelands. This is unusual for mycorious mushrooms, but a white wave sometimes appears, as a rule, in groups, under birches, which are younger than 5 years old.
What season of the year they find mushrooms
The time for collecting the crop of the white waves from August to October, but sometimes longer, if winter is not early.
