False honey mushrooms how to distinguish photos

Honey mushrooms- These are mainly autumn mushrooms. They usually grow in heaps, groups and, as is customary, on old stumps of deciduous trees, on fallen trunks or next to them. The best honey mushrooms are small ones; they are best suited for frying, pickling, and pickling. Honey mushrooms that are overgrown are not very attractive and are most suitable for mushroom spawn, but usually no one collects them.

Edible honey mushrooms

These are several varieties of mushrooms that at first glance are most similar to honey mushrooms. They are very similar both in appearance and in the places in which they grow. False honey mushrooms also grow in groups, flocks on stumps, old trees and near them.

What is the main difference between a real honey mushroom and a false one? The main difference is that real honey mushrooms have a skirt on the leg at the level of the lower edge of the cap. In a very young honey mushroom, the area under the cap is covered with a film, which subsequently breaks off and forms a skirt. Important! Not a single type of false honey mushroom has such a ring.

There is a popular rhyme: “The edible honey mushroom has a ring made of film on its leg. And all the false honey mushrooms have bare legs to the toes.”

Remember! Edible honey mushrooms have a ring on the stem under the cap that remains after the protective film. The color is brownish-gray, the smell is pleasant, the cap is covered with brownish scales. The plates under the cap are light.

Edible honey mushrooms

Varieties of false mushrooms photo