Mushroom swine

Pigs - mushrooms are quite popular among mushroom pickers. Representatives of this species are found, as a rule, in groups. They grow on the felling, located on the stumps of uprooted trees, in old anthills. Gather a mushroom pig from May to November.

It should be said that this species was conditionally edible until 1981. Mushroom pig (dunka) was included in the fourth category for food properties. Since 1984, this species is deadly dangerous. As already mentioned above, this species is quite common. It is believed that after boiling the mushrooms can be fried, salted and eaten. Among the population there is a strong opinion that Dunka poses no threat to health. Hardcore mushroom pickers continue to collect these mushrooms. However, there is also a danger that is confirmed by medicine.

Mushroom swine is poisonous and quite dangerous. It contains an antigen, which contributes to the production of antibodies, which destructively affect the red blood cells in the blood. In this case, poisoning can occur after a rather indefinite time, even after a sufficiently long (for many years) its use. The degree and speed of the onset of poisoning will depend on the level of susceptibility of the organism. The most sensitive are children. However, there were several cases of rapid onset of death as a result of poisoning. Toxins, which contains a mushroom pig, accumulate in the body gradually. Heat treatment does not destroy these toxins. It is impossible to make mushrooms by edible digestion, even if boiled several times.

Description

The mushroom hat usually has a diameter of up to twelve to fifteen centimeters, in rare cases up to twenty. This part is fleshy, slightly convex at first, with a folded edge, then flat, in the center funnel-shaped, in very rare cases - funneled. The edge of the hat is down straight, ribbed or wavy, wavy. Young representatives differ olive-brown cap (or olive-brown), in adults it is rusty-brown to gray-brown color. On sections with pressure, it darkens. The surface to the touch is fibrous-furry, dry in young, in adults it is smoother, but in moist weather becomes sticky, shiny.

The fungus's flesh is rather dense and soft, with time it becomes loose. Its color is from brownish or yellowish brown to pale yellow. On the cut, the flesh darkens. In dry weather it is often wormy. The flesh is not distinguished by any special smell or taste.

The fungus has a short, about nine centimeters, leg. Its diameter is about two centimeters. The surface at the foot is matte, ocher-olive or dirty-yellow, smooth. The color is almost like that of a hat or somewhat lighter.

The hymenophor (the surface of the fruit body) is folded, descending. Often it is described as lamellar, but it will be more correct to say that it is "pseudo-plate". Fold layer from the bottom of the cap, in contrast to natural plates. The color of pseudo-plates is rusty-brown to yellowish-brown. Darken when pressed.

Spores smooth, yellow-brown, ovoid-ellipsoidal.

Mushroom pigs bear fruit annually and often enough for the season. It grows in various forests, usually in wet, shaded areas. The most common fungus in the Caucasus, Western Siberia.

In medicine, dunka is used in the manufacture of medicines. The fungus contains atromentin. This brown pigment has antibiotic properties. Atrotomentin is a derivative of polyporous acid. This substance has a marked antitumor activity.