Before you go to the forest for mushrooms, you need to know at least a little about them. So, how to distinguish champignons from grebes, experienced mushroom pickers can tell clearly. But amateurs sometimes go into the woods, hoping either for intuition, or for luck. In fact, the difference between pale grebe and champignon is not so great, especially when it comes to medium-sized young mushrooms.
Unfortunately, cases of poisoning due to inattention or ignorance are not uncommon. And if we are talking about the gifts of the forest (mushrooms, berries), then everything can end very sadly. For a trip to nature to have only positive consequences, one must either clearly understand what it is from there that one can bring home, or not take anything.
How to distinguish champignons from grebes externally
Due to the very high level of risk of poisoning when consuming even a small dose of the poison found in mushrooms, collecting them should be extremely careful. One of the most toxic species is considered a pale toadstool, which can be quite easily confused with edible russula or champignon. However, nothing is threatening attentive visitors to the forest. You just need to be clearly aware of how a person collecting mushrooms should act, how to distinguish edible mushrooms from grebes and not bring deadly poison home.
The first thing you should always pay attention to is the hat plate. At the grebe they are dazzling white (for this she got her name), but can be slightly yellowish or greenish. As for edible mushrooms, then they can be pink, brown or have other shades of red. Many believe that the toadstool should be with a pronounced "skirt" encircling the leg, by which they strive to determine it. But, unfortunately, this only works in cases where the mushrooms are large enough and ripe. And even then, the absence of a rim does not guarantee safety, because large insects or rodents can damage it, moving close enough. After heavy rain or hail, this symptom may also disappear.
If you do not know how to distinguish champignons from grebes, refuse a suspicious find. It is better to be left without soup or another dish for which a quiet hunt was started, than to get into intensive care or worse.
The champignon, among other things, has a slightly different hat shape: it is more convex, with rounded edges. The adult pale toadstool is usually almost flat. But focusing only on such a sign is not worth it, since the difference may be minimal.
It turns out that the observance of several fairly simple rules can give a guarantee of safety when consuming forest gifts. Firstly, you should never take unfamiliar mushrooms or berries. Secondly, at the slightest doubt and suspicion it is better to leave them in place. The most important way to distinguish mushrooms from toadstools is to turn them over to look at the color of the hat plates. If it turns out to be a strange shade, it is better to refuse such a mushroom.
