Mushrooms Lactarius torminosus, Moths

Lactarius torminosus grows from summer to autumn in the woods and forests is exclusively under the birch trees . It distributed throughout the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere, but also found in the north, for example, in Alaska . This is the onlyLactarius, considered poisonous . Toxic compounds seem to predetermine and acrid burning taste Lactarius . Irritation of the intestines leads after 2 - 4 hours to vomiting, stomach pains and diarrhea . Painful condition lasts for about two days . But if volnushki pink cook minimally quarter of an hour in salted water and then drain the water, then it can bethere without fear . In some areas of the Soviet Union, this fungus is salted or fermented, and then eat with sour cream or used as a snack . In Finnish pink volnushki among the most valuable mushrooms . Volnushki pink is sometimes confused with this Sandy, but the latter, however, never has a fleecy hats and whitelatex . burning taste volnushki much stronger than that of false flax .   hat has a diameter of 5 - 13 cm, the meat pink or brownish color with dark circles and curved fuzzy boundary . Plates creamy pink . feet Dimensions 4-8 / 1 - 2 cm, the color of the cap . The flesh is whitish, then pink . white milky juice, modify, burning . Disputescolorless, 7.5-10 / 6 - 8 mm Cap 4 - 10 (12) cm in diameter, strongly fleshy, napivsferichnom, convex-or uvignutorozprosterta, sometimes almost funnel-shaped, pinkish-gray, brick-pink, fleshy-red, with more or less expressive dark concentric zones, first fibrous scaly, later almost naked, into the ground lighterpovstista-fiber-bahromistaya; when you acquire a brownish, then olive green color; sticky when wet . The plates are thin, narrow, whitish, then pinkish light ocher . spores 7.5 10 x 5,5 - 7 pm . Leg 4 - 6 x 1 - 2 cm, the color of the cap or lighten her, naked, often wrinkled, dented and oral . The flesh is whitish in a hat,under the skin pinkish, red in the leg, in the peripheral layer of dark, without any special smell, burning, acrid, by cutting the color does not change. white milky sap, burning-corrosive, does not change in the air . Distributed in Polesie and forest-steppe . It grows in birch and mixed with birch forests in August - October . Conditionally edible mushroom . Use freshafter two (20 min) boiling mushroom, cut into pieces, sometimes mistaken for a delicious saffron milk cap .