Mushroom turns blue on the cut - what does this indicate?

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

What is the main difference between an experienced mushroom picker and a beginner? An experienced collector distinguishes about a thousand different types of fruiting bodies growing in forests and meadows of his climatic zone. He knows the smell of edible and deadly poisonous mushrooms. He knows the places where they can grow, and the time that is favorable for them. He also knows which mushroom turns blue on the cut, why this happens, and also that some fruiting bodies emit milky juice - white or orange. It does not harvest its crops along roadsides and near industrial areas. After all, mushrooms absorb all heavy metals and toxic substances. Thus, even boletus becomes a he alth hazard.

Are there clear differences between edible and poisonous mushrooms?

Unfortunately, only one, but it does not guarantee that you will not collect toadstools in your basket. This is the so-called "bed of death". This is the name of the recess between the leg and the mycelium of some fly agarics and grebes located in the ground. Neither smell (unpleasant in some edible species) nor taste (neutral in some poisonous ones) canto say with certainty what is in front of you. The same applies to the sign when the fungus turns blue on the cut. A novice collector just needs to take a catalog and remember what mushrooms, chanterelles, mushrooms and butter mushrooms look like, and how they look like dangerous pale grebes, fibers, fly agarics and a whole cohort of “false” ones that are faked as edible ones. Better yet, go to the forest a couple of times with an experienced person who will show and tell.

Why does the mushroom turn blue on the cut

Many ignorant people consider such a blue color as evidence of the poisonousness of the find, and therefore do not take it into their basket. And in vain! A change in color only means that an oxidation reaction occurs from contact with air. Mushroom flesh can not only turn blue, but also turn green, turn black, red, brown. And also start to "bleed" - milky carrot-colored juice, which stands out at the break, scares inexperienced mushroom pickers from delicious camelina.

What mushrooms turn blue on the cut

Very quickly becomes a dark green kink of the boletus. Ryzhik, which in Russia is called the royal mushroom, and in Ukraine - a trump card (for its elegant red-orange color), also, when cut, turns very blue. Aspen mushrooms belonging to the first category change color when the cap is pressed and on the cut of the leg. Not immune from discoloration and mushrooms of the highest category. Even in the glorious cohort of mushrooms there are such. For example, a very tasty Polish mushroom found in pine forests. Blue on the cut and flywheel (another name is the swamp). In southern Russia and Ukraine inoak forests, acacia and chestnut forests grow mushrooms that taste great and also change color. They become blue, green, black or brown. This is a speckled oak, chestnut. And the bruise turns blue at the mere touch.

Unfortunately, poisonous mushrooms also change their color. So, the deadly satanic mushroom turns blue on the cut. It is very similar to an ordinary boletus, therefore it causes many poisonings. You can recognize it by the reddish stem and orange pores on the cap. If you are afraid of a bluish or dark green color on the cut, touch it with your tongue: inedible mushrooms are bitter.