Where are the most mushroom places in the Moscow region?

"And in our suburbs we find mushrooms, breams are caught ..." - this is the way the famous cartoon about Cheburashka is sung from childhood. Only here not everyone happens to type a full basket, no matter how long they wander through the surrounding forests, and not everyone is lucky to catch a standing bream. Where are the promised gifts of the wild? Or industrialization of a huge metropolis destroyed all the mushroom berries in a radius of a hundred kilometers on the vine? But still there are mushroom places in the suburbs, you just need to look for them correctly. To do this, you need to understand what exactly loves and does not like this or that kind of fruit bodies. From this we proceed when and, most importantly, where to go with the basket.

Some go for mushrooms to the market - after all at the height of autumn, this product is sold spontaneously almost every metro station. However, buying these products from grandparents is a risky business. Even if you are a person with experience, and you are sure that white, chanterelles or maslings are spread out in front of you, then you do not know where they were collected! And in fact the mushroom places of the Moscow region are not only the most thicket of the forest, but also the roadsides, the vicinity of the industrial zones, the territory of the former military facilities. Do not forget that these delicious plants are the nature of their sponge, and absorb all the harmful substances from the atmosphere and soil. And if the radiation can still be detected by a Geiger counter, then the presence of heavy metals can not be easily measured.

In addition, mushrooms are a perishable product. Do you know how many days a trader is trying to sell his forest trophies? It is safer for you (and cheaper) to go with the basket for peaceful hunting. But where to go to the suburbs for the forest gifts? These plants love moisture, but within reasonable limits. In the marshes only toadstools grow, as well as in boggy meadows. In the dry land - in July-first half of August - only the berries go to the forest. But when the first cold rains take place at the end of August - the harbingers of the coming autumn - it means it's time to take a basket, a knife and go out of town.

As is known, mycelium is the source of fruit bodies. It can be exhausted, stop fruiting. At the same time, another place may grow under the ground. Therefore, with all the desire, you can not call the mushroom places of the Moscow region, saying: "Go to the station White Stolby, there will pass 500 meters to the north, then turn at the fork to the left and after 100 meters there will be three pine trees ...". No, the reality is much more complicated, and not to come home empty-handed, you need to know the "habits" of our potential forest trophies.

Most edible fungi live in symbiosis with certain trees - there are only five species, and therefore it will be easy to remember: oak, aspen, birch, spruce, pine. Alder, hornbeam, beech, linden, as a rule, give a low yield of mushrooms. Pine and spruce are coniferous trees, and birch with aspen and oak are deciduous. Therefore, the best mushroom places in the Moscow region are mixed forests. It should be remembered that the average age of trees should not exceed 30-40 years - the old ones exhaust the soil. Also, small fruits that play hide and seek with us do not like unnecessarily dark places. They prefer the edges, glades, and also love to grow on the slopes, only a separate part of the day illuminated by the sun (western or eastern). There are also corrphytes - that is, those that do not need trees. They grow in meadows and pastures and even on lawns in the park (champignons).

Each species has its own habits. Boroviki love coniferous forests, podberezoviki and boletus, as you can guess from their name - deciduous. Many seasoned gatherers are sure that the most-most mushroom places in the Moscow region stretch to the south-west and south of the capital. The statement is controversial: south of the city there are quite a few forests as such, and in the west the east wind (prevailing in the rose of the winds of the region) is being demolished by a smog hanging over a metropolis. It is best to travel the mixed forests of the northeastern part of the Klin-Dmitrovsky ridge or try your luck in the eastern part of the Moscow region - in the pine forests of Meshchera. In the south, beyond the Oka, there are also harvest plots in the deciduous forests, rich in chanterelles, butter mushrooms, and honey agarics.