Mushroom growing on trees: edible species of macromycetes

As a rule, "quiet hunters" are looking for their prey on the ground and forest litter, and rarely one of them will pay attention to the fungus growing on trees. However, among these macromycetes there are edible and very tasty. Mushroom growing on trees, most "quiet hunters" a priori is recognized as unfit, unless it is an open-hearth.

Oyster mushroom

This macromycete is relatively known to mushroom pickers. Oyster is an edible mushroom growing on a tree. Its name speaks for itself. The cap of oyster is rounded and fused in a fanlike manner. At first it is blue-gray or blue-gray, convex with wrapped edges, and then eared or funnel-shaped, with thin edges, matte, smooth, steel, ashy or yellowish-white in color. Oyster mushroom has a fleshy, dense white flesh. Later it becomes grayish, hard and gummy.

Gather this mushroom, growing on a tree, in May-June, and also in the autumn (before frosts). It grows on stumps and tree trunks of deciduous type (oak, mountain ash, willow, aspen, elm, birch). There are two forms of this fungus: gray and light. Culinary characteristics are average.

Grifol curly

This macromycete is also called polipil oak, but in the people it is known as the mushroom-ram. The fruiting body is oval or spherical in shape, bushy leaf-shaped, branched into a multitude of blades-hats, can grow to a diameter of 80 cm. This fungus, growing on trees, can reach a mass of 10 kg or more. By right, some of the largest are these fungi growing on trees. A photo of a curly-shaped griffle can be seen in this article.

Each cap-blade of the macromycete is fibrous or radially wrinkled, often with wavy uneven edges, with a matte and thin skin. It can have a gray, gray-ocher, brown-brown or yellowish-brown hue. Each cap has a fibrous, longitudinally pitched, lateral, eccentric, short leg that fuses into a common base. The flesh is light, dense, elastic, but with age it becomes more rigid. It has a tasty flavor and a pleasant pungent odor.

This macromycete is harvested in the period August-September in broad-leaved forests. Mushroom-sheep can be found on the foundations of ancient oaks, sometimes maples. In the southern regions, it often grows on chestnuts and beeches. There it can be collected before the first frost. In trees this macromycete provokes the development of white rot. Mushroom-ram is not only edible, it is also very tasty. Due to the fact that he is gaining a large mass, one copy can be fed the whole family several times.

Sour-yellow tinder

This fungus, growing on trees, is conditionally edible only at a young age. You can eat only those specimens that grow on deciduous trees. Macromycetes, which settle on conifers, can cause poisoning and hallucinations.

The fruiting body of the fungus is thick, cantilever, round, fan-shaped, uneven, growing sideways to the trunk. The edge of his oval and thick, and later - wavy and thin. The color is orange, yellow or pink orange. The flesh is juicy, whitish, firm, later it becomes firm. She has a pleasant smell. Collect this fungus in the period May-September. Macromycetes most often settle on old, dead or weakened trees (willows, oaks, ash-leaf maples, pears).