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False milk mushrooms are a common name for a number of mushrooms that in appearance resemble real milk mushrooms, or true milkmen. Not all of them are dangerous when used, but it is necessary to be able to distinguish them in order not to make an unpleasant mistake.
Are there false milk mushrooms
Among mushroom pickers, it is customary to call the word "false" not one specific species, but a mass of varieties that in one way or another resemble a true milkman. The category includes fruiting bodies with external similarity, as well as species related to the milk mushroom with weaker nutritional qualities.
There are a huge number of varieties of false lice
Thus, a false mushroom is one that can be confused with a real one for one reason or another. It can be edible and inedible, tasteless, there are even poisonous milk mushrooms. To learn to understand the difference, you need to carefully study the photos and descriptions of the fruit bodies.
How to recognize a white lump
Undoubtedly, the edible and most delicious is the lamellar white lactarius, or the true lactarius with a flattened cap up to 20 cm in diameter. It is yellowish or milky in color, with a small funnel-shaped depression. His plates are also milky or yellowish-cream, the pulp is light and quickly yellowing in air.
Mushrooms that look like porcini mushrooms
In mixed and broad-leaved plantings, most often next to oak trees, you can find doubles of a real milkman. They look very similar to him in appearance, but real and false milk mushrooms are not so difficult to distinguish.
White poplar mushroom
This species grows in the same places as the real one. He has similar sizes of legs and caps, the same yellowish or milky color. But you can distinguish it by one feature - the white poplar lacks a small fluffy fringe on the cap.
You can also distinguish them by their taste, although this is not obvious when collecting. White poplar is edible, but has a greater bitterness, which does not disappear anywhere after soaking.
White podgruzdok
Another false twin also grows in mixed plantings, usually near oak or pine trees. In appearance, color and aroma, it completely copies a real milkman. A few differences are that there is no fringe on the edges of the cap, and the flesh on the break does not emit bitter milky juice. White lump is edible.
Other mushrooms that look like milk mushrooms
In addition to the listed species, the true milkman has many other false counterparts. Each of them deserves a more detailed consideration.
How to distinguish milk mushrooms from a squeak
Skripun, or violin, is a mushroom from the genus Millechnikov, often growing in groups in coniferous plantings and deciduous forests of Russia. Skripun has a wide funnel-shaped cap up to 20 cm with a wavy edge. In the photo of a white false milk mushroom, it can be seen that the skin of the squeaky is dry with slight pubescence, whitish at a young age and slightly buffy in adulthood. The pulp is white and firm, with abundant milky juice, and the juice and pulp gradually turn yellow from contact with air.
A photo and description of a false white milk mushroom claim that it is suitable for consumption and is used in salting and pickling, although it requires soaking before that. The species can be distinguished from each other mainly by their shade - real adult milkmen retain a whitish or yellowish color, but the squeak becomes dark.
From bitterness
Gorchak, or bitter, grows mainly in the northern regions in humid forests, both deciduous and mixed. His hat is medium in size, up to 8 cm, and at first it has a flat-convex shape, and then it becomes like a funnel with a small tubercle in the central part. The color of the cap is red-brown, dry and silky to the touch. The flesh of the bitterness is whitish, brownish over time without a pronounced odor, and the milky juice is very pungent and bitter.
You can distinguish white from false milk by color - the real look is much lighter. It is also permissible to use gorchak for pickling, but first it must be soaked, boiled, and only then canned.
From the milkman
The miller, or smooth, is a lamellar mushroom, very similar to the true one. Millechnik has a large flattened cap up to 15 cm in diameter, the color varies from brown to lilac or almost lilac. To the touch, the surface of the cap is smooth and slightly slimy, the flesh is yellowish, with white juice that turns green in the air.
You can distinguish a false milk from a true one by color, it is much darker. In addition, in the case of a false lighter, the milky sap at the break acquires a greenish rather than yellow color. Miller is considered edible, after processing it is often used in salting and canning.
From pepper
Pepper mushroom from the family Syroezhkovy grows usually in deciduous forests in damp and shaded places. The false pepper fungus, similar to the true one, has a slightly concave flattened cream-colored cap, brightening towards the edges. The pulp of the false pepper is light, with bitter juice.
You can distinguish the peppery variety from the real one mainly by the milk juice. In the present, it quickly becomes yellowish, but in the false pepper it acquires an olive or slightly bluish tint.
False pepper is sometimes eaten, it is salted after a long soaking. Otherwise, it remains too bitter to consume.
From dry
Among the photos and descriptions of mushrooms that look like milk mushrooms, there is a dry false milkweed, it has a large wide concave cap and a whitish-cream color with brown circles. Its flesh is also creamy and dense, it tastes pungent. In dry weather, it often cracks on the cap, hence its name.
You can distinguish a dry false appearance from a real one by a smooth hat, devoid of slight pubescence. The mushroom is edible and highly prized in cooking.
From rowing spruce
Spruce ryadovka grows mainly next to pines, but in practice it is not so common to meet it. Its cap is small, up to 10 cm, sticky to the touch and fibrous, semi-extended in shape. The color of the mushroom varies from light to dark gray with a slight lilac tint, with a darker color closer to the center of the cap.
Although the spruce row is edible, it is still necessary to distinguish it from a real milkman. The difference between the mushrooms lies in the color - for the real white species, not gray, but cream shades are characteristic. In addition, the flesh near the ryadovka does not turn yellow on the break and emits a distinct flour aroma.
From the pig
The pig also belongs to false twins, since it has a flattened funnel-shaped cap up to 20 cm wide, with a tucked edge and a velvety surface. The pig is yellow-brown in color, sometimes slightly olive, with light brown flesh.
It is possible to distinguish a false milk from a true one not only by the shade of color. The flesh of the double is brownish and darkens in the cut, which makes it possible to distinguish it from the white flesh of the milk mushroom, which turns yellow in the air.
From the waves of the whites
The white wavy, or whitewash, has a small funnel-shaped cap only up to 6 cm wide, fluffy and silky to the touch, with a hairy folded edge. At the break, the wave is pinkish, with bitter and pungent juice.
It is possible to distinguish the varieties among themselves and to determine the white milk mushroom precisely by the pulp; it does not have a pinkish tint on the break. In addition, it is much larger in size, and the color is more yellowish-ocher than pink. You can eat a whitewash, but only after soaking.
From toadstool
You can even confuse a true milkman with a poisonous pale toadstool. The deadly mushroom has a flattened wide cap with plates below, white or milky-greenish and milky-yellowish in color.
The main thing that helps to distinguish a toadstool is the presence of an ovoid seal at the top of the leg. Also, the cap of the toadstool is not covered with light villi, as in the edible white lactarius. Toadstool is strictly forbidden to eat, it causes fatal poisoning.
From camphor
Camphor lactic acid, which is a false twin, grows on moist soils, mainly in coniferous forests. His cap is small, up to 6 cm, of a standard funnel-shaped shape with wavy edges. The texture of the cap is glossy, the color is reddish-brown, the flesh is brick-brown in color with an unpleasant camphor odor.
Although both species secrete white milky juice, it is very easy to distinguish a camphor species from a photo of a false mushroom. The false weight is darker, and its flesh is also dark. False camphor is not edible, it is bitter, and processing does not eliminate this deficiency.
Inedible and poisonous mushrooms that look like milk mushrooms
Among the photos and descriptions of false milk mushrooms and twins, species that are completely unsuitable for food consumption can be distinguished.
- Death cap - the species is deadly poisonous and categorically unsuitable for food.
- Camphor lactarius - this species, examined in detail, tastes too bitter. It is not poisonous, but inedible.
- Golden yellow milky - a species with a bright golden color can be distinguished from the true variety by its color. It tastes very bitter, therefore it belongs to the category of inedible.
Conclusion
False milk mushrooms have many shapes and names, so they call more than a dozen different mushrooms that resemble the true appearance in shape, color and pulp. Not all doubles are dangerous to humans, but there are poisonous ones among them, so it is imperative to be able to distinguish them.
