Udmurtia is considered a forest land with many mushroom places. Experienced mushroom pickers assure that you can stop at any forest or forest belt in order to collect a variety of fruit bodies. The area around Izhevsk is especially popular among mushroom pickers. Where do mushrooms grow in Izhevsk and when can you start 'hunting' for them?
Traditionally, the mushroom season for the collection of saffron milk caps begins at the end of July and lasts until the end of September. However, the peak is in August and the first half of September. Then in Izhevsk saffron milk caps can be collected in bags. The most famous place for collecting these fruit bodies is called by many Sharkansky district. There are many coniferous forests with sandy soil, which is a favorite with mushrooms.
Where to collect upland and spruce mushrooms in Izhevsk?
Mushroom pickers distinguish pine mushrooms and spruce, which differ from each other in a different color of the cap. The mushroom boar has a bright orange cap that does not change when cut. The spruce mushroom has a greenish hat, and on the cut it has a bright orange color. Concentric rings diverge along the surface of the cap.
Where to collect mushrooms in Izhevsk, in what forests? I must say that these fruiting bodies are especially fond of young plantings of pines and firs. Popular wisdom says: 'Ryzhiks always grow generously there, eating pine, spruce, fir, cedar.' In addition, mushrooms grow in large groups, so those who like 'quiet' hunting prefer to collect these particular mushrooms. Moreover, in terms of their taste, they are not inferior even to boletus, aspen and boletus.
Where else can you get mushrooms in Izhevsk?
Experienced mushroom pickers share information on where to pick mushrooms in Izhevsk. Usually everyone goes to the woodlands near the village of Sylychka. It is located just 20 km from Izhevsk along the Yakshur-Bodyinskaya highway.
Another popular place where you can gather saffron milk caps in Izhevsk is the forest near the village of Iyulskoye, which is located just 40 km from the Votkinsk highway. South of Izhevsk are the villages of Bolshaya and Malaya Venya, as well as Yuski, which can be visited. In these places there are pine forests and spruce forests, which are rich in saffron milk caps. And north of Izhevsk is the Chur railway station, where there are many of these edible mushrooms in the pine forest.
Therefore, knowing where to collect mushrooms in Izhevsk, every mushroom picker can safely go to the nearby forests to collect their favorite fruit bodies.
