The season for the worst mushroom mistakes is beginning. Find out how to avoid making a mistake

More and more mushrooms appear in the forests, many people find hundreds of boletes, boletes, boletes and butter mushrooms. The season for . These delicious mushrooms are eagerly used in cooking, but in the forests you can find a specimen that closely resembles them and is highly poisonous – the phallic mushroom. How to distinguish these mushrooms?

First of all, you should collect fully developed mushrooms – they are much easier to recognize. There are a few details to pay attention to:

• Hat — in the case of kites, it is even over 40 cm in diameter, and additionally has characteristic scales that create a zigzag pattern. The kite’s hat is grey-brown. The cap is about 15 cm in diameter, it is usually smooth and has a slightly greenish tint.
• Ring — in the case of the kite it is movable, in the fly agaric it is attached to the stem.
• Base — in the kite it is bulbous, but not baggy. The toadstool has a distinct sheath at its base, i.e. a sac at the base of the stem.

In smaller specimens, the identifying features may be invisible, so only fully developed mushrooms should be collected – then identification is much easier and the risk of error is much lower.

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Crescent kites are mushrooms containing a lot of vitamins and minerals, they are tasty and eagerly used in the kitchen. They grow most often from August to the end of October. They appear in deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests. They can also be found in fields, meadows and parks. They most often grow at the edges of forests, rarely appear deeper, do not like very humid places and do not grow in acidic soil.

The State Forests remind you that if you are not sure what species of mushroom you find, you should not pick it. Toadstool poisoning, even with quick help, is often fatal.

Sources: gov.pl. lasy.gov.pl