The butter dish is the most popular representative of the mushroom kingdom. These mushrooms are easy to 'hunt' because they grow in families.
The boletus got its name for its interesting features: the mushroom cap is covered with a slimy, sticky skin, which is difficult to remove, especially if it gets wet. Another characteristic feature of some representatives of this species is the presence of rings on the stem. Is there a boletus with a 'skirt', and can they be eaten?
Edible boletus mushrooms with 'skirt'
Butter with a 'skirt' – edible mushrooms, with a semicircular chestnut-brown cap. In mature individuals, the cap has the shape of a cone with the edges drooping down. Sometimes the usual color of the cap of an adult mushroom becomes dark red. The stem is white oil with brown spots at the base. Sometimes their height reaches 12 cm, and the thickness is 3 cm. In an adult oiler with a 'skirt', the color of the film that wraps around the leg acquires a grayish-purple hue.
A fairly common type of mushrooms with a 'skirt' are considered 'late' or 'real'. The legs of these mushrooms are covered with a white film that looks like a 'skirt'. Although they are called 'late', they actually appear like all other mushrooms: in early June, when the weather is favorable for growth.
Latin name: Suillus luteus;
Genus: tubular oiler;
Type: common butter dish;
Family: Boletovye;
Doubles: Siberian mushroom, yellow-brown, pepper.
Description of the mushroom.
Hat: diameter – 3 – 15 cm, sticky to the touch, covered with mucus, from lemon yellow to dark brown, the upper slippery layer is difficult to remove. Under the bonnet there is a tubular sponge-like structure.
Leg: height 4 – 12 cm, thickness up to 3 cm, curved or clavate, granular on top, with a white or grayish 'skirt', above the ring a leg of the same color as a hat.
Flesh: soft, juicy, lemon-yellow, does not change at the cut, in mature mushrooms it turns pink or red at the cut;
Edibility: tasty, edible, belongs to the II category of nutritional value;
Distribution: pine and mixed forests of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus.
The difference between false oil with a 'skirt' and edible
There are also other edible members of this genus.
For example, the 'ruby' oil can, which grows only in oak forests and is very common in Europe. The 'larch' butter dish, which is usually found in cedar forests and places where larch trees grow. The American butter dish is often found in thickets of dwarf cedar in Chukotka.
However, if boletus has so many varieties, then are there false boletus with a 'skirt', and what are their differences?
Often, amateur mushroom pickers can confuse a real butter dish with its counterpart – a pepper mushroom. Although not poisonous, it tastes bitter and can lead to an upset stomach. False oil does not have a white 'skirt' on the leg. Although the leg of the false oiler is decorated with a purple ring, with further growth it dries up and disappears, becoming almost invisible.
