Mushrooms of the Leningrad region in 2019 please with an abundance, because this year's spring calendar marked the opening of their harvest season.
Mushroom picking in the Leningrad region in 2019
Lyudeynopolsky district
Mushroom places of the Leningrad region in 2019 are very numerous, among them is the Lyudeynopolsky district, more precisely - the village of Alekhovshchina. There are deciduous forests, typical for mushrooms such as chanterelle, moss and boletus, which delight mushroom pickers.
Mosswheel
The edible mushroom mushroom is characterized by a hat up to 13 cm, green-gray or olive in color, a brown tint is possible. The shape is convex, the upper part is slightly velvety to the touch. Leg length 12 cm, this part has a cylindrical shape and a narrowed base, covered with a mesh pattern.
The fleshy part is dense, light colored and blue at the cut. A characteristic feature is that the fungus is often moldy. It is used for boiling, frying and pickling. It has a short shelf life.
Boletus
Common boletus and marsh boletus are often found. The cap of the common poultry can be up to 14 cm in diameter, its color varies from off-white to dark brown and depends on the age and place of growth. The upper part of the cap in a young representative of the species has a hemispherical shape, and is transformed during the ripening process. In wet weather, it becomes slimy.
The spore powder is usually brownish olive. Mushrooms are notable for the fact that they can grow up to 4-6 cm in height per day, and for this reason they are especially susceptible to damage by worms. These mushrooms are harvested from July to August.
Kirovsky district
On the map of the Kirovsky district, the areas where mixed forests are located, as well as pine forests and groves with their mushroom places are clearly visible. Among the mushrooms there are bitters and podgruzdi, for which mushroom pickers go to this area.
Bitters
Bitters absorb harmful substances
This species grows in coniferous forests, birch groves and many other places with high air humidity. The mushroom is conditionally edible, but it has a bitter taste, as evidenced by the name of the mushroom. When collecting bitters, you need to be careful when choosing a place, because the mushroom is able to accumulate a lot of harmful substances. The mushroom cap grows up to 10 cm in diameter, has a flat-convex shape. Its color is brownish reddish.
- The fleshy part of the compacted structure is white in young representatives.
- A distinctive feature of this mushroom is that its pulp abundantly secretes a watery white milky sap, burning and pungent in taste, with a soft woody aroma.
- The length of the leg sometimes exceeds 11 cm, its diameter is up to 3 cm.
- The plates are densely and often, have a narrow lumen, fragile in structure.
Load
The podgruzdok is similar in external description to the lump, but does not have a fringed covering along the edges of the cap. The latter is endowed with a white color, it is dryish in structure, matte, in diameter reaches 25 cm, occasionally brown pigmentation is found. The pulp is light colored and breaks easily. On the lower surface of the cap are whitish or bluish plates that form a lamellar hymenophore. The leg is shortened and cylindrical. This mushroom is found both in coniferous and deciduous forests. The collection of these takes place from July to September.
Volkhov district
Mushroom places in the Leningrad region 2019 are marked on the map also in the Volkhov district. There are gray boletus here, as evidenced by the reports of mushroom pickers in social networks.
Oil
Butterlets are a medium-sized species, the cap is up to 8-15 cm and has a convex shape. Its color depends on where the mushroom grows. The types of boletus that are more common in forests are larch and m. Granular oil cans. Here you can find a sieve (goat), also belonging to the genus Oiler.
Irina Selyutina (Biologist):
Greyish oiler is often called larch gray oiler and can be found in young pine and larch forests. It grows in rather large families. The cap is usually up to 10 cm in diameter, as they say "cushion-shaped", light gray with an inherent greenish or purple tint, the surface of the skin is mucous. The pulp is white, watery, tasteless and odorless. On contact with air, it often turns blue, which gave the mushroom another name - m. Blue. On the surface of a dense 8 cm leg in young specimens there is a wide white ring - the remains of a bedspread. M gray belongs to category 3, it can be used both pickled and fresh. Collected in June - September. When cooking, it is better to remove the skin from the cap.
In m. Larch, the cap is cushion-shaped; as it ages, it unfolds, reaching 6-13 cm in diameter. Its color is orange-yellow, golden-yellowish, etc., the integumentary tissue is smooth and covered with a thin layer of adhesive. The pulp is fibrous, light or lemon-yellow, does not change on the cut in young mushrooms, but in older mushrooms it first becomes pink, then turns brown and finally becomes red-brown. The upper part of the grate is approximately the same size and shape, but the color varies within the yellow spectrum and is brownish-yellowish, brownish-reddish, dark orange-yellow, etc.
Mushrooms of the Leningrad Region 2019
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Conclusion
On the map of the Leningrad Region in 2019, in the summer season, there is an abundance of places for the development of mushrooms, which appear after the first rains.
Irina Selyutina (Biologist):
Experienced mushroom pickers will never hand over their mushroom spots to anyone. Therefore, in order not to return home "empty", try to remember some "signs" that will help you get to a good place:
- if the year is rainy, you need to look for mushrooms on hills, hills, hills;
- if the year is dry - go to closer to water bodies;
- mushrooms prefer clearings and edges with moist, but not soggy soil;
- there is no point in looking for mushrooms in the thicket of the forest or thick grass;
- since Since many fungi form mycorrhiza with tree roots, the older the tree, the more likely it is to find a nearby mycelium (however, remember that boletus, for example, is preferred by young pine forests).
It is very important to remember "your" mushroom places - myceliums do not run through the forest, which means that new fruiting bodies will appear in the same place the next year. And if you “removed” the mushroom correctly, without damaging the mycelium, expect new young mushrooms here next season.
To know which of the mushrooms are harvested in your area, you need to follow the news from mushroom pickers on social networks or clubs.