Volnushki mushrooms are pink and white. White wave How the king fought peas with mushrooms read

Systematics:

• Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
• Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
• Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
• Subclass: Incertae sedis (of uncertain position)
• Order: Russulales (Russulovye)
• Family: Russulaceae (Russula)
• Genus: Lactarius (Milky)
• View: Lactarius pubescens (White wave)

Synonyms:

• Belyanka
• Volzhanka

White wave cap:
The diameter of the cap is 4-8 cm (up to 12), depressed in the center, with strongly tucked edges that unfold as the mushroom matures. With age, many specimens acquire a funnel shape, especially for mushrooms growing on a relatively open places. The surface of the cap is strongly hairy, especially along the edges and in young specimens; depending on the growing conditions, the color changes from almost white to pink, with a dark area in the center; old mushrooms turn yellow. The concentric zones on the cap are almost invisible. The flesh of the cap is white, brittle, secretes milky juice, white and rather caustic.

Smell sweet, pleasant.

White wave plates:
Adhering or descending, frequent, narrow, white when young, then becoming creamy; in old mushrooms - yellow.

spore powder:
Cream.

Leg of a white wave:
In those growing in more or less open places, it is very short, 2-4 cm, but specimens grown in dense and tall grass can reach much greater height(up to 8 cm); the thickness of the stem is 1-2 cm. The color is whitish or pinkish, matching the hat. In young specimens, the stem is usually solid, becoming cellular and completely hollow with age. Often narrowed towards the base, especially in short-legged specimens.

Spreading:
The white volnushka occurs from the beginning of August to the end of September in mixed and deciduous forests, forming mycorrhiza mainly with birch; prefers young birch forests and swampy places. In a good season, it can appear in the thickets of young birches in large quantities.

Similar species:
The white wave can only be confused with the closest relative -. The latter is different and rich pink hats with pronounced concentric zones, and a place of growth (old birches, drier places), and a figure - a white wave is more squat and dense. However, single faded specimens can be very difficult to distinguish from a white wave, and, perhaps, this is not really necessary.

Edibility:
A good mushroom suitable for salting and pickling ; unfortunately, the white wave is probably the most caustic of the “noble”, surpassing even, although it would seem! good mushroom(we are not talking about valui and violinists). Practice shows that undercooked flakes, even after six months of storage in the marinade, do not lose their bitterness.

If there was a prize for the most charming mushroom, volushki would take first place. Intense pinkish-orange color with a touching fringe on the edges - what could be cuter? And the pattern on the hat - spiral circles that attract the attentive look of the mushroom picker? No matter what you say, collecting waves is an incomparable pleasure. It is endless - you break the fragile spine of a pink stout, and your eyes are already riveted to the next one, you stretch out your hand behind it and mark with peripheral vision more and more grown pink furry buttons. And the basket fills up and fills up. Although there are never too many waves - you can clean at least a few baskets in an evening. And all this with pleasure - the dirt does not stick to the most delicate rough hat, and the blades of grass do not stick, it remains only to use a knife to cut off the fringe and once again admire the abundant milky juice. And the milky juice of the waves should not only be admired, they need to be treated. All waves are healing. Yes, there are only two types of them: Lactarius torminosus - a pink wavelet and Lactarius pubescens - a white wavelet.

The pleasure of collecting waves is not only in their beauty, but also in their abundance, but not in such a way that interest disappears. Volnushki grow in groups, flocks, and where there are old ones, there are sure to come across young, sort of pink, neat patches.

When describing the fungus, it is worth noting that with age, the edges of the cap completely unbend and even rise upward, as if opening, and then the wave becomes more fragile. Then it fades, its stripes (waves) become barely noticeable, the thick edge thins out, becomes ragged, and this whole mushroom looks like a pinkish mushroom. Pale pink plates turn yellow in places. Some dryness is felt in the mushroom compared to the poured, vigorous fortress from youth. On the cut, the volnushka secretes abundant white juice, which is very caustic. If you touch your tongue, it will seem that you have dipped the tip of your tongue into a strong pepper. Therefore, the waves must first be kept in cold water so that all bitterness is gone from them. Then they are usually salted, although you can pickle.

On this page you can find photos and descriptions of white and pink waves.

Volnushka pink in the photo

Volnushka pink (Lactarius torminosus) represents agaric. It is quite popular among mushroom pickers and is known to most of them as Volzhanka or Volnyanka. growing large groups from July to the end of September, but most a large number of mushrooms observed in late July and from late August to mid-September.

The favorite habitats of the waves are the northern borders of deciduous and mixed forests with a predominance of birches.

Mushroom volnushka pink is edible. Hat 6-12 cm, meat-red-beige with darker concentric stripes. In young mushrooms, the cap is flat, slightly concave in the middle. Over time, the central depression becomes more noticeable, and the cap becomes funnel-shaped, its edges begin to fluff up and bend down. The diameter of the cap of a mature volushka is about 10–12 cm. Its surface is covered with a thin, weakly mucous skin, which becomes sticky in wet weather.

As can be seen in the photo, in the fungus fungus of this type, the hat is painted in a beautiful pink color, a pronounced pattern made up of concentric stripes of a brick-red hue gives it a special decorative effect:

On the underside of the cap there are adherent or slightly descending plates.

Plates of a light meat-red hue. The leg is reddish, hollow, 5-15 cm, 1-2 cm thick. Its color, as a rule, matches the color of the cap, but has a lighter shade. The milk is white with a color changing in the air, with a very pungent taste. Spore powder is colorless or white.

The pulp of the volnushka is fragile, friable, white or slightly pinkish, with a pleasant mushroom aroma. It secretes a milky juice with a bitter, even acrid taste, which retains its color when exposed to air. The pulp of the volnushka is rarely wormy, apparently, the forest dwellers do not like it.

Edible wave or not - there is no doubt. But they are used, as a rule, only for salting, but require pre-treatment to avoid light food poisoning. The collected mushrooms are soaked in cold water for at least 2-3 days or boiled. Experienced mushroom pickers select only young mushrooms with small caps with a diameter of no more than 3–4 cm for pickling. In addition to good palatability, they delight the eye with neat curls formed by the edges of the hats bent inward.

It can be confused with camelina, which, unlike the wave, can be cooked in any way. Camelina is characterized by orange, not white, not burning milk.

These photos show what a pink wave looks like:

White wave

In the red summer there is a lot of everything in the forest - and all kinds of mushrooms and all kinds of berries: strawberries with blueberries, and raspberries with blackberries, and black currant. Girls walk through the forest, pick berries, sing songs, and a boletus mushroom, sitting under an oak tree, and puffing up, pouting, rushing from the ground, angry at the berries: “Look, what they have born! We used to be in honor, in high esteem, but now no one will even look at us! Wait, - thinks the boletus, the head of all mushrooms, - we, mushrooms, are a great force - we will bend down, strangle it, sweet berry!

The boletus conceived and made a war, sitting under an oak tree, looking at all the mushrooms, and he began to convene the mushrooms, began to help call out:

“Come on, you little darlings, go to war!”

Waves refused:

- We are all old women, not guilty of war

- Go, you bastards!

Refused mushrooms:

- Our legs are painfully thin, we will not go to war!

— Hey you, morels! shouted the boletus mushroom. - Gear up for war!

Refused morels; They say:

- We are old men, so where are we going to war!

The mushroom got angry, the boletus got angry, and he shouted in a loud voice:

- Milk mushrooms, you guys are friendly, go fight with me, beat the puffy berry!

Mushrooms with loaders responded:

- We are milk mushrooms, brothers are friendly, we go to war with you, to the forest and field berries, we will throw our hats on it, we will trample it with the fifth!

Having said this, the milk mushrooms climbed together from the ground: a dry leaf rises above their heads, a formidable army rises.

“Well, be in trouble,” the green grass thinks.

And at that time, Aunt Varvara came into the forest with a box - wide pockets. Seeing the great cargo force, she gasped, sat down and, well, took the mushrooms in a row and put them in the back. I collected it full-full, forcibly brought it home, and at home I dismantled the fungi by birth and by rank: volnushki - into tubs, honey mushrooms - into barrels, morels - into beetroots, mushrooms - into boxes, and the largest boletus mushroom got into mating; he was pierced, dried and sold.

Since that time, the mushroom has ceased to fight with the berry.