About that, mushrooms are how useful, still ancient people knew. Today their nutritious qualities are appreciated by the people giving preference to healthy food. Low-calorie, but rich with vegetable proteins and vitamins, they easily fill the needs of a human body for nutrients. One of such mushrooms is also the mushroom umbrella.
Features of a white mushroom umbrella
It is possible to meet a mushroom in the form of an umbrella anywhere. Unpretentious, it grows at the forest edges and cuttings, along roads and on glades, in city parks and house gardens. The nature presented to the person this mushroom in two types – white and motley. The white mushroom umbrella looks large as its hat has a diameter of 25 cm.
In the course of growth of a mushroom the form of its hat changes from ovoid and roundish and kolokolchaty on spread, reminding the real umbrella. In the center of a gray-brown hat there is a dark hillock.
Mushroom body thick and friable, white.
Mushrooms are well acquired by a human body and saturate it with fatty acids, lecithin and pro-vitamin D. Content of fats in mushrooms is insignificant – from 1 to 6%.
Free plates of white color are separated from a leg by a ring. In process of aging of a mushroom they redden. The leg at a white mushroom umbrella in thickness reaches 3 cm, in length – 35 cm. Color its same, as well as at a hat, a scale brown. The mature mushroom disputes breeds. Sporous powder of white color. As for tastes, the young mushroom has it nut.
Distinctive features of a motley mushroom umbrella
At a motley mushroom umbrella the hat is not so big, as at white. Its diameter varies within 5–15 cm. Covered with scales, it has a grayish-brown color and the ovoid form. With age it changes and turns into the opened umbrella. The hollow, but blown-up to the basis leg is allocated with a wide mobile ring. Leg thickness – 1–4 cm, height – no more than 30 cm. Favourite places of a motley umbrella are thickets of a white acacia. Rare the mushroom is not considered, and it meets in the same place where also his white relative, and even on the decaying brushwood. Pick a mushroom from June to October. The characteristic mushroom smell and nut taste do it attractive to mushroom pickers.
Whether the mushroom umbrella is suitable in food?
On nutritious properties the mushroom umbrella belongs to 4 categories, it is edible, but because of specific nut taste it is collected not by all mushroom pickers. It is better to use a white mushroom umbrella while it is young (the age is determined in an ovoid form of a hat).
All edible fungi are vitamin-rich A, C, D, B, PP. Their nutritional value can be compared to a liver and butter.
The motley mushroom umbrella is also suitable in food. The real judges of its taste use the fried hats and rings. For preparation of sandwiches the crude mushroom is sliced. Both types of a mushroom are subject to preparation for the future – dry them. Mushrooms in a dry form can be frayed in powder.