The previous year in our Kostroma region has become outstanding in its mushroom characteristics. For my more than three decades of quiet hunt, I did not find those mushrooms that I found that summer and that autumn.
It all started with Lactarius deliciosus, commonly known as the saffron milk cap and red pine mushroom. Earlier I did not collect them at all, but in 2016 collected them for a season in the amount of about a dozen baskets!
Here they are:
They can be eated right a day after collection without any heat treatment. Just pour the salt and a day later with sour cream and garlic!
But that was only the beginning. After the red pine mushroom, I came upon several white mushrooms Lactarius resimus. This royal mushroom is usually collected away from Kostroma, but they got to me right near the house.
Here they are after cleaning and washing:
For the first time in my life I found them and first salted them. A month later, as expected, in the characteristic snot they were ready and extremely tasty.
And at the end of the season I came across one more rarity that I had never seen before. Mushrooms are chenille from the slightest touch to them, and not just on the cut like ordinary boletus. I knew that only satanic mushrooms of some kind of unimaginable red-violet flowers could be poisonous tubular, so I took these plain-looking home. Here are the three mushrooms from above:
Googling on arrival, I realized that this Gyroporus cyanescens, commonly known as the bluing bolete or the cornflower bolete, a rare tubular fungus, even listed in the Red Book.
This is the story of last year's hikes in the forest. I hope that this year will not fail either :)
Up to the new mushrooms!
Good Luck!