The boletus yellow mushroom (Latin: Boletus junquilleus) has the second name of the Junkville boletus. Translated from the Latin "junquillo" - it is light yellow, so call it so wrong. Description and features of this type - later in the article.

Appearance Features

The diameter of the hat is from 5 to 15 cm, and sometimes you can meet a mushroom with a hat with a diameter of up to 20 cm. The hat has a hemispherical shape and is slightly convex, and over time it becomes flat. The skin is smooth or slightly bumpy. When the weather is dry, the surface of the hat is dull, and when it is wet outside, it becomes mucous. The pulp is yellow and odorless, and if cut, it quickly turns blue.

Leg is yellow-brown, pot-bellied, tuberous and without mesh. Its height is from 5 to 12 cm, and its thickness is from 2 to 6 cm. The surface is grainy or with small scales. The hymenophore is free and tubular. The length of the tubes is about 2 cm. They have a bright yellow color, and when compressed, the color changes to blue. The spores are smooth and fusiform. Spore powder is olive in color.

Places of distribution

The main habitat of mushrooms is Western Europe, North America, North Africa. He is rarely seen in the Far East. In Russia, it can be found in the Suputinsky reserve, which is located in the Ussuri region. It usually grows in forests with oak and beech trees.

Yellow mushroom picking season

The mushroom picking season begins in mid-summer and ends in early October. Most mushrooms can be harvested in mid-August and early autumn. Timing may be delayed by several days due to weather conditions. You need to search under beech and oak. A lot of mushrooms in a warm and humid place, most often such conditions on the edge of the forest.

Did you know? If yellow boletus is actively collected, then it will have to be listed in the Red Book, because it is already quite rare.

How to collect

It is best to collect a few days after heavy rain. Look for them on the bright and sunny edges, where the earth has sandy soil. The mushroom usually grows in large groups, so if you find one mushroom, then continue nearby carefully looking for the remaining mushrooms. Disputes are far in the ground, so you can safely break it or cut it with a knife. This will not affect the fertility of mycelium in the future. Small mushrooms weighing 5-7 g should not be touched. In a few days, they will turn into mushrooms weighing 250-300 g.

You can find a mushroom weighing up to 1 kg

Food quality

Yellow boletus is edible. By nutritional qualities, it belongs to the 2nd category. But in some books it is described as conditionally edible because it has an unpleasant smell of carbolic acid in its raw form. You should know that this opinion is incorrect, because after drying or cooking a specific smell disappears.

Important! Mushrooms need to be prepared or prepared for the winter during the day after their collection. Then they will retain more taste and good.

Pour them with salted water so that the worms float to the surface, if they are present. Stew or boil for 20 minutes.

Various dishes are prepared from them:

• soups;
• roast;
• sauces;
• stuffing for pies or dumplings.

They are also dried. This is done in this way:

1. Rinse thoroughly.
2. Remove moisture with a towel.
3. String on a thread.
4. Hang in a warm and dry place for the whole winter.

Dried mushroom before cooking is enough to soak in cold water for 30 minutes. Instead of water, you can use milk, it will give the mushrooms a creamy taste. You can also freeze dried mushrooms.

This is done in this way:

1. Thoroughly rinse the dried boletus.
2. Divide into small portions.
3. Pack by packages.
4. Put in the freezer.

Defrost before cooking.

Did you know? For scientists, it is still a mystery that mushrooms, like animals, can produce vitamin D, but at the same time they are guided by sunlight, which is typical for plants.

Beneficial features

Yellow boletus has many useful properties for humans. By eating them, one can completely compensate for the deficiency of certain B vitamins, zinc, amino acids, and easily digestible proteins.

• They can:
• restore the endocrine system;
• normalize the functioning of the nervous system;
• positively affect the skin and hair.

They are also widely used in medicine. If used regularly, it will prevent the development of tumors, stroke and heart attack. For wound healing, dried mushroom powder is used. To do this, until the wounds heal completely, it is applied to the damaged area of ​​the skin twice a day.

In order to strengthen the immune system and cure sexual disorders, drink tincture 2 times a day before meals. Tincture can be done as follows:

1. Powder 300 g of dried mushrooms.
2. Add 20 g of sugar and 40 ml of vodka.
3. Store the tincture in the refrigerator.

Danger of use

There is no harm from yellow boletus. But inexperienced mushroom pickers can easily confuse it with poisonous mushrooms. When collecting these mushrooms, you need to remember that it smells of carboxylic acid, and his poisonous relatives have lemon-yellow legs and pores that turn blue when pressed.

For prevention against harmful substances, soak mushrooms in cold salted water for an hour before use.

Important! It is strictly forbidden to collect the mushroom near chemical plants and roads where vehicles travel, because they, like a sponge, absorb salts of heavy metals, and as a result, the mushroom becomes poisonous.

Similar views

Representatives of this species have a characteristic color, which distinguishes them from a number of other mushrooms. But some are similar to them:

1. Dubovik Kele - this mushroom has the same description, its only difference is that the hat has a brown or pink color. It belongs to the conditionally edible, therefore it is rarely harvested.
2. Borovik additional - this mushroom is distinguished by the color of the hat, it is darker, and the leg to the base has a brown color. It refers to edible.

Yellow boletus in our country is rare. It is very useful and is widely used in cooking and medicine. Its collection should be taken carefully.