Finding a nice plug, many mushroom pickers hopes that it will be healthy – with larger specimens it can be more difficult, small freshly grown mushrooms are usually healthy, but this is not a rule. It’s best to check every mushroom. We should remember that Even after removing parts infected by worms, it is not recommended. It’s best to collect completely healthy mushrooms.
There are several steps that will allow us to check if the fungus is worms, at first glance they will be holes in the hat – visible especially on darker hats, this is the first sign that the fungus is inhabited by unwanted tenants. Heavily infected, they also secrete an unpleasant smellholes are equally visible on the legs and under the hat. In this situation, we should leave the fungus.
In case of doubt You can also tie the mushrooms – that is, the open hand several times on the hat, a healthy mushroom should make a sound similar to that, as if we had touched, among others watermelon. In addition, it will be clear hard and compact with the touch. If it bends under the hand, it means that the worms probably infected him and ate a lot of flesh. If the mushroom seems healthy, you can break it, but we should still remember to check it carefully before cooking or frying.
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It would seem that the easiest way to check the mushroom is to break it and cut it in half – this is a way that gives you confidence, but it is worth avoiding it if we see obvious signs that a given specimen is worms. Why? Because such mushrooms are an important element of the ecosystem. In addition, they are nutritious to forest fauna – Not only mushrooms also living worms that can be an important element of the diet of birds or insects. For this reason, it is better to leave such specimens in place and do not pull them out if we know that they are worm and will not be useful to us.
Old mushrooms are also an important element of forest litter, support the distribution of matter and increase the nutrients in the soil. When choosing mushrooming, it is worth remembering this principle, just like the right clothing – you should cover the body to get home only with a full basket of healthy mushrooms and without ticks. Remember, also to collect mushrooms risen – those that can already be identified in terms of species.
