The largest mushroom

Honey mushrooms

These cute mushrooms can be found in almost every forest. They like to sit on stumps or old, rotten trunks of dead trees. They are small, compact and live in large families. If you are lucky, then in one place, you can collect a whole basket of this delicacy.

Due to their structure, they tolerate any transportation very well. After all, the structure, honey agarics, is thin and elastic. They almost do not break.

Description:

• The hat has a diameter of 3 to 10 cm, smooth, wet and sticky in wet weather;
• Color from honey to brown;
• The leg has a length of 4 to 10 cm;
• The color changes from white to brown;
• The plates are creamy, sometimes slightly brownish;
• There is a white ring that looks like a film in structure.

Most often, honey mushrooms are pickled, but they are also fried and stewed. They are tasty, slightly sweet. They are very fragrant and have many useful trace elements for the human body.

Honey mushrooms

Mushrooms-giants

A huge raincoat from the mushroom family was found in 1987 by Canadian Jean Guy Richard. This giant mushroom was 2.6 meters in circumference and weighed 24 kg! The photo of the mushroom picker with his trophy immediately hit the Internet and scattered around the world. Scientists, evaluating the find, concluded that a raincoat could produce so many spores that mushrooms that grew from their generation could cover the entire area of ​​our planet three times.

Just 1 kg "lost" to the raincoat a mushroom that a local resident found in 2007 in the south of Mexico in the state of Chiapas. With a height of 67 cm, it weighed 23 kg. A year later, in 2008, again in Mexico, a biologist discovered a mushroom weighing 22 kg. These are the giants! They can feed the entire village!

The largest mushroom (with a stem and a cap) ever found in Europe is considered to be a champignon weighing 14 kg. It grew quietly in a field in the Italian province of Bari until it was found and cut by local farmer Francesco Quito. Together with his wife, they brought the find home by car, cleaned it, cut it, fried it and invited all the neighbors for a treat! That was a feast for the whole world!

Before that, the first place in the European ranking of giant mushrooms belonged to a truffle weighing 7 kg. It is known that its owner was able to make great money by selling a truffle for a lot of money to a metropolitan restaurant.

In last place is the rather modest find of 25-year-old girl Terry Hodson Walker. She found the fungus on her land in the English county of Staffordshire in 2011. In fact, the fungus, indeed, has a very modest size compared to the giants, which are described above. Its diameter was only 47 cm, and its weight was just over 2 kg. But for some reason a lot of attention was paid to this find, a photo of a girl with a mushroom walks all over the Internet under the loud name "The largest mushroom in the world"! Maybe the girl is pretty, because the mushroom is clearly not the largest and does not deserve such interest ...

Russian record holders

This is again a mushroom raincoat. He was found in 2011 in the Permian forest by a lover of "quiet hunting" Vladislav Grabosinsky. After measurements and weighing, it turned out that the giant has a hat with a diameter neither more nor less than 1 meter 72 cm, its height is 52 cm, and it weighs 12 kg 150 grams. Vladislav did not eat the find, but delivered it intact to the Department of Botany of the Perm University. Let them study for health!

Another record holder is a Russian birch tree found in a forest in the Tomsk region. He was discovered by the local mushroom picker Aleksey Korol, picking mushrooms near his village. The man was simply shocked by the find: the height of the giant mushroom leg was 28 cm, and the diameter of its cap was 36 centimeters, while it weighed 2.4 kilograms! Interestingly, the mushroom was completely clean, without wormholes or damage.

If large raincoats or tinder fungi are periodically found, then such a giant boletus is an incredible rarity. Until now, not a single such mushroom has been officially recorded.Although it may be that ordinary people who find something like this do not understand the full value of the find. They simply rejoice at the large mushroom, take pictures with it as a souvenir and eat a unique mushroom together. Photos from the Internet prove that such giants are found in Russia.

For example, this photo from the Web is clearly real. On it, two charming ladies represent just a huge mushroom, but no information about it has been found ... Therefore, it is advisable to inform specialists about such finds, although it is not a fact that the giant will not be taken away, then you will no longer have to try it, and it will be a little offensive ...

Top Giant Mushrooms

The size of the mushroom depends on the growing conditions

Some representatives reach large sizes only due to good conditions for their development. The media are actively promoting this topic. Therefore, lists appeared that unite the largest mushrooms in the world:

• 10th place: his raincoat mushroom is clearly not the largest when compared to the rest, but in the UK he is a 100% favorite. He was found by a young gardener. The mass of the fruiting body is 2 kg, the cap is 46 cm in diameter.
• 9th place: boletus, found in Russia in the Tomsk region. Boletus is a contender for the title of the largest edible mushroom. It differs not only in a hat with a diameter of 36 cm and a weight of 2.4 kg, but also in its color. This specimen, found in Russia, has brown legs and a hat.
• 8th place: lingzhi mushroom, or reishi. In Russia and the CIS countries it is known as varnished tinder fungus. The largest mushroom in China is lingzhi. Its weight: 7.5 kg, a hat measuring 1 m 7 cm. Lingzhi are unique in that they are actively used in folk medicine. These organisms contain polysaccharides that increase the dynamism of blood cells, thereby increasing the parameters of immunity. In addition, it is characterized by hepatoprotective, anti-allergenic and antioxidant effects. Found a mushroom in the provincial city of Hezhou.
• 7th place: a raincoat from Russia, found by a resident of the Perm Territory in the fall of 2011. This is a large mushroom with a cap diameter of 172 cm, a leg of 50 cm and a weight of 12 kg. This type of mushroom is suitable for human consumption, therefore it was entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest edible mushroom in the world.
• 6th place: Italian champignon, found in the province of Baria. Its weight is 14 kg. The finder could not carry it in his hands, so he had to use a car to take the find with a big hat to the village. The champignon turned out to be edible.
• 5th place: Chinese macromycete. Another representative, surprising with its parameters. It is distinguished by its non-standard shape (many small caps on one leg) and its size. The diameter of the cap is about 100 cm, the weight is 15 kg. Scientists have not yet been able to classify it, but it rightfully ranks on the list of the largest mushrooms in the world.
• 4th place: titanium macromycete. These huge mushrooms are known for their unique characteristics. In the United States, two such specimens have been discovered, claiming to be the largest mushroom on the planet. The first was found in 2005 in one of the coffee fields. He weighed 28 kg. The second applicant was found in 2007, his weight was 20 kg, the height of the leg was 70 cm.
• 3rd place: Canadian macromycete. He, like the rest of this species, is distinguished by its enormous size. A huge raincoat weighing 26 kg was found by a local resident during a family walk in the forest. This surprised people so much that they called the mushroom the largest on earth.
• 2nd place: Chinese Fomitiporia ellipsoidea, one of the tinder fungus species. A huge mushroom was found on the island. Hainan. Hat with a diameter of 88 cm, height - 10.8 m, weight - 5 c. There are few plants on earth that can match it. The volume was 400-525 cm³. The peculiarity of this organism is that it develops not outside, but underground.
• 1st place: rightfully occupies the largest mushroom in the world native to the forests of the United States.This living organism belongs to the Armilaria family, whose representatives are distinguished by their impressive parameters. Most of it was out of human sight. Armillaria ostoyae are macromycetes also known as honey fungus. The mycelium is a single organism. It covers an area of ​​880 hectares in the Oregon State National Park. The hyphae Armillaria ostoyae sprouted on an area equal to almost 1,700 football fields, so this organism is deservedly called the largest mushroom on the planet.

Many are interested in whether it is possible to eat the world's largest mushroom? Researchers from the United States say that it is possible to eat it (especially since the fruit bodies are of normal size, but the mycelium is huge). And although the mushroom is called honey (or dark), it is better to eat it with a lot of garlic and butter.

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There are several giant mushrooms on earth that are impressive in size. The most expensive fruit was recognized as a white truffle weighing 1.5 kg, which was sold for 125 thousand euros at an auction.

The highest

The variegated umbrella is considered the tallest in the world. This variety is widespread in the forests of Europe, North America, Australia. Usually the cap reaches 35 cm in diameter, and the leg grows up to 40 cm. But there are specimens, the height of which can reach half a human height.

Important! Overripe umbrellas are not advised to be eaten, because with age they become quite tough and absorb toxic substances from the environment.

The most difficult

One of the most difficult species is the tinder fungus (Fomitiporia ellipsoidea). The found fruit weighed 500 kg and grew for 20 years. Chinese scientists discovered it on the island of Hainan. The diameter of the cap was 88 cm, and the height was about 11 m.

Raincoat

A resident of Canada, during the collection, discovered a huge raincoat, the weight of which reached 26 kg. And in the United States, biologist Rene Andrade found a titanium macromycete (Macrocybe Titans) on a coffee plantation, which weighed 28 kg.

Oldest

The oldest and largest fruit today is Armillaria ostoyae or dark honeydew. This species is located in the Malur Nature Reserve in the United States. The fruits are no different from ordinary honey agarics, but the underground part reaches unimaginable sizes. The area on which the mycelium lives reaches almost 1000 hectares. Scientists have found that this specimen is about 2,500 years old, and its weight is about 600 tons.

The fastest

Among the fast-growing fruits, the record holder is the common veselka. The growth rate of the fruiting body and mycelium is so high that no other has yet been able to overtake it. The stem of the fruit can grow by 5 mm in a minute. Fast growth is not an advantage, because such fruits not only ripen quickly, but also age quickly. The life cycle of the common veselka is 1-2 days.

Description of the largest mushrooms in Russia

In the forests of Russia, mushroom pickers have more than once met huge mushrooms, photos of which are gaining popularity on the Internet today. Finding them is a real success, because in the mushroom season most of the fruits are cut, which could reach record sizes.

Raincoat

In 2011, a giant raincoat was found. During the "quiet hunt" this treasure was found by Vladislav Grabosinsky. He did not leave the find for himself, but gave it to the botanists of the Perm University for study. It turned out that the hat of the raincoat had grown in a diameter of 1 m 72 cm. The height of the fruit reached 52 cm, and the weight was 12.5 kg.

Raincoat

It is worth noting that raincoats are quite common all over the world, except for Antarctica. They can be found in deciduous and coniferous forests, in clearings and in parks. Depending on the species, fruiting bodies can grow from a few grams to 2-3 kg. The hat can be pear-shaped, round or egg-shaped.

Boletus

Alexei Korol, who was gathering forest crops near his village in the Tomsk region, discovered just a giant boletus. The mushroom picker was petrified by the size of his find: the stem of the fruit reached 28 cm, and the cap had a diameter of 36 cm. The boletus weighed 2.4 kg and was completely clean and without any damage.

Boletus

You should look for boletus in deciduous forests and birch groves. The fruits most often form mycorrhiza with birch, which is why they got this name. There are four types of boletus:

• black;
• turning pink;
• ordinary;
• swamp.

The common boletus is considered the most common in our forests. Its cap usually grows about 15 cm. The color of the surface at a young age is light brown, and as it grows, the cap becomes dark brown. The white flesh is quite dense, does not change color at the cut site.

Borovik

A huge white mushroom was found on the territory of Russia in 1961. This news was immediately broadcast live on "Moscow Radio". The find weighed more than 10 kg, and the diameter of the cap reached 58 cm. To date, no information has been preserved about the place of its discovery.

The boletus cap usually reaches 25 cm in diameter. The surface color depends on the place of growth. Inhabitants of spruce forests are distinguished by a reddish-brown cap and a thin high leg. Porcini mushrooms that grow in birch forests have a lighter color, and a relatively thick leg expands towards the base. The stem of the fruiting body reaches 20 cm in height and 10 cm in width.

Borovik

You can hunt for boletus from June to October. The growth of these fruits is quite rapid: the newly appeared fruit weighs about 2 g, and after 7 days the weight increases to 200 g. Giants weighing up to 5 kg are often found, but they are mostly wormy.

Tinder

In the North Caucasus and in the southern regions of Russia there are rather large tinder fungi. There are no record holders among them, but you can find a fruit of a very impressive size. Recently, this variety has spread widely in Altai, where massive tree felling takes place. Lacquered tinder fungus belongs to saprophytes and contributes to the destruction of wood.

Tinder

The largest mushrooms in Europe

Today there are about one hundred thousand varieties of mushrooms, among which there are specimens with medicinal properties. Some of them contain penicillin and antibiotics. And, of course, the fruits are massively eaten.

Europe is rich in mushroom spots, but giants are extremely rare. Scientists have not yet figured out the reason for the growth of fruits to unimaginable sizes.

Champignon

Of all the huge mushrooms ever found in European countries, champignon takes the first place. Italian Francesco Quito discovered a 14-kilogram fruit in a field near the province of Bari. The farmer and his wife loaded the find onto the car. The giant was brought home, cleaned, cooked, and friends and neighbors were invited to the table.

Champignons in the wild usually grow no more than 25 cm in height. Adult fruits have a flat cap, while young ones have a rounded one. The surface color can be white, brownish or brown. At the beginning of growth, the plates are colored white, and as they grow older, the color changes to pink or almost black.

Champignon

Mushroom

In eastern Switzerland, scientists have discovered a huge mushroom mushroom, which is more than 1000 years old. In Europe, it is the largest mushroom, the sizes of which vary within 800 × 500 m. As you know, honey agarics form mycorrhiza with rhizomes, which has a detrimental effect on trees.

Honey mushroom

The honey mushroom has a relatively small size: the cap is up to 17 cm in diameter, the leg is up to 10 cm in height. The surface is available in various shades of brown or olive green. The skin is covered with light scales, which can disappear as it grows.

Truffle

A huge white truffle was discovered in Italy. The weight of this delicacy has reached 1.89 kg.The difficulty of hunting for a delicacy mushroom is that it grows underground and can only be found with the help of specially trained dogs. The truffle was put up for auction and sold for $ 61,000.

Truffle

The fruit has tuberous or rounded shape. The pulp is fleshy or gristly. The size ranges from a small nut to a large potato tuber. Truffles can be found in deciduous forests, because they form mycorrhiza with tree rhizomes. White truffle most often grows near poplar, mountain ash, elm, linden and birch.

Armillaria ostoyae (honey mushroom)

It was found in the relict forests of the United States. He is considered to be one of the largest creatures living on the planet. Its part, the largest, settled underground, leaving only small mushrooms, macromycetes, honey mushrooms at the top, any of which can easily fit even in the hand. But his mycelium is a single organism and is conveniently located on 880 hectares in the Oregon National Park. This is a real monster.

For about two and a half thousand years, it grew, destroyed tree roots on the way, and has now reached a weight of more than 600 kilograms. Only now, hardly anyone can cook soup from it. One of these giants was first reported to the general public in 1992 by the New York Times.

Armillaria ostoyae - the record holder among mushrooms

In the Oregon forests located in the United States, biologists managed to find a fungus that is striking in its size. True, the ground part of this record holder cannot surprise - Armillaria ostoyae fits in the palm of your hand. We know these mushrooms under the name honey mushrooms. Scientists were surprised by the size of the mycelium, which is impressive in its parameters:

the area occupied by the rhizome of the fungus is 880 hectares;

mycelium can cover about 1665 football fields;

the age of formation of the root system of the fungus - 2500 years;

the estimated weight of the mycelium is more than 600 kg.

After research, biologists have established that the discovered Armillaria ostoyae is not only the largest among other mushrooms, but also the greatest living creature on the planet. Even the roots of some centuries-old trees were destroyed by the mycelium of this giant.

Mushroom Monster

For the first time, the general public learned about the giant mushrooms Armillaria only on April 2, 1992. One of the record holders appeared on the front page of the most popular newspaper "New York Times". The publication described the find, according to reports, the interlacing of underground threads and ground mushrooms covered as much as 15 hectares of land. And all this was a single whole, which the experts were able to prove.

Armillaria - small mushrooms with a huge mycelium

In the same year, another giant mushroom of the same species was found. It occupied a space of about 6 square kilometers. But even he did not become a real record holder. The largest mushroom on the planet grew in Mahler National Park in the state of Origona in the Blue Mountains. "Gribochek" covered an area of ​​890 hectares, which is about 1220 football fields. Scientists even calculated how long it took him to grow so huge. It turns out that the mushroom is at least 2,400 years old. It belongs to the species Armilaria ostoyae, and in addition, it is known as a honey mushroom. However, you definitely cannot make soup from such a record holder, since it is inedible. On the surface, the mushroom leaves only dead trees and small mushrooms, the rest is all underground.

The oldest mushroom in the world, Armilaria ostoya, has been living for almost 2.5 thousand years.

Such a mushroom is a well-known and common type of real honey fungus. At the same time, this find is a parasitic fungus that damages trees throughout the northern hemisphere of our planet. It lives in the soil and mainly spreads along the roots of trees, inserts into the thickness of the wood mycelium threads, which are called resoids. “This is a single organism that begins its growth as a microscopic spore, and then spreads like a plant,” experts say, “and if we could remove the bud and look at everything that was left, then we would see a large single heap of one mushroom with all the filaments mycelium ".

In cooking

This mushroom is a brother of champignons, so wherever every housewife uses them, you can safely crumble a bighead or a raincoat. These mushrooms are loved for their taste, aroma and ease of preparation. However, they are not suitable for cooking soups, as the broth tastes unpleasant.Below are some delicious recipes.

Mushroom caviar

This dish is a lifesaver, it can be served on a festive table and simply spread on sandwiches, used as a filling for pies and pancakes.

Ingredients:

• Mushrooms
• Onion
• Carrot
• Eggplant or squash
• Animal fat

How to cook:

Peel all vegetables and mushrooms in equal proportions. Grind and fry in hot fat. Add salt and spices. Cool and beat with a blender until smooth.

Salad in five minutes

A really quick salad for all occasions.

Ingredients:

• Canned beans 1 can
• Mushrooms 200 gr.
• Tomato 1-2 pcs.
• Greens
• Rusks
• Turnip onion ½ head
• Salt pepper
• Mayonnaise

How to cook:

Cut greens, tomatoes and mushrooms into cubes. Mix all the ingredients, season with salt and pepper and season with mayonnaise. If you are not ready to eat fresh mushrooms, you can pre-fry them with onions.

Mushroom schnitzel

This original dish will delight even the most sophisticated gourmet. It will take about an hour of your time to cook, but the result is worth it.

Ingredients:

• Mushrooms
• Ginger
• Soy sauce
• Garlic
• Parsley
• Corn flour
• Chicken eggs
• Spices: allspice and pink pepper

How to cook:

Peel the mushrooms, cut into large round slices. Scribble the edges of each slice.

For the marinade: grate the ginger on a fine grater, pass the garlic through a press, mix everything with soy sauce and spices. Marinate the mushrooms for 15-20 minutes.

Beat two eggs. Prepare flour in a separate bowl.

For frying, heat the sunflower oil in a skillet. Dip each mushroom slice first in beaten eggs, then roll in flour and fry for two minutes on each side.

Garnish the finished schnitzels with finely chopped herbs and serve with a fresh vegetable salad.

Bon Appetit!

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Fans of mushroom picking know many names for this amazing representative of the mushroom family. The giant golovach is famous for its incredible size, therefore in mycology it is often known as the giant raincoat or giant langermania. Thanks to the unusual "rounded head" in the shape of a head, which has a fruiting body of the fungus, mushroom pickers often call these representatives of the plant world very consonantly - bigheads. Indeed, in nature, the shape of these mushrooms is very similar to the head. Another name for these mushrooms - "raincoat", appeared due to the fact that most often these gigantic mushrooms appear in wooded areas after long and heavy rains.

The most expensive mushrooms in the world

Many of the most delicious types of mushrooms are quite common in our area and are available to the population. However, some varieties of edible fruit bodies are extremely rare and are real delicacies. Often they are served only in the best restaurants in the world for very wealthy people.

Morels

Sometimes "on a quiet hunt" under a layer of foliage you can find unusual fruiting bodies with a ruffled head. These are morels - one of the most expensive mushrooms in the world. Unfortunately, in Russia, not many people know about their edibility and pass by. However, overseas, 1 kg of dried morel can cost more than $ 500. These mushrooms are especially appreciated in Europe and the USA.

Black truffle

One of the most expensive types of mushrooms on the planet is the black truffle. It is almost impossible to find it in the forest, since it grows underground only in certain places. These mushrooms are harvested from November to March in France, Spain and Italy. In China, these mushrooms are grown artificially, but true gourmets prefer to eat only those fruits that have grown naturally.

The best chefs in the world are willing to give thousands of dollars to get this product on their menu. Black truffle has an incredible taste and aroma, however, it is so intense that it is added to dishes in very small quantities.

Matsutake

The mushroom with the unusual name matsutake is the most expensive species in Russia. It forms mycorrhiza with oak trees, densely growing together with their roots deep underground. In this regard, it is sometimes very difficult to extract this fruit from the earth.

Matsutake grow and develop only in the natural conditions of forests in Japan, Korea, China, North America and Russia. The price for 1 kg of the product can be more than 2 thousand dollars. At the same time, only fresh fruits with the most pronounced taste and aroma are of the greatest value.

White truffle

Among the mushrooms in European countries, the main delicacy is the white truffle. Like matsutake, it grows mainly under oak trees, and people use specially trained pigs and dogs to find it.

In some countries, this mushroom is considered poisonous, but many experienced chefs use it to prepare various gourmet dishes. The average price per kilogram of white truffles is about 5, or even 7 thousand dollars.

Chinese cordyceps

Completing the selection of the most expensive mushrooms on the planet is Chinese cordyceps. This Tibetan delicacy costs over $ 120,000 per kilogram. This cost is due not only to the rarity of this unusual parasite, but also to its amazing healing properties. It is believed that Cordyceps are eaten by Chinese athletes as a doping agent that can improve their physical performance tenfold. At the same time, no blood test can detect traces of it in the body.

In truth, mushrooms are an amazing product that can not only please with their taste, but also improve health. Many of the most delicious types of fruit bodies grow in the forests of our country, so lovers of "quiet hunting" can safely go in search of them. But some of them have a very high cost and are extremely rare.

Features

The fruiting period of the fungus in temperate climates lasts from June to September, in the southern regions - to October. Some specimens can be found at the end of May.

Boletus bears fruit in forest glades in groups (sometimes singly) on loamy, sandy and sandy loam soils. In rare cases, it grows in swamps and peat bogs. He needs to be looked for next to coniferous and deciduous trees (spruce, pine, oak, birch), he loves forests with lichen or moss cover. It is a light-loving species, but with a high yield it can hide in shaded places.

Description of external signs:

1. The hat has a convex shape. With age, it becomes larger, flat-concave. The peel does not separate from the pulp, its color is from almost white to red-brown (sometimes the color is uneven, in lemon or orange tones). A yellowish or white rim may be present. The surface is smooth or wrinkled, mucous in wet weather.
2. The thick leg is massive, barrel-shaped. The base is thickened, the surface is milky, reddish or brownish with a fine mesh of light veins (sometimes the pattern is poorly expressed).
3. The flesh in young specimens is strong, in old specimens it is fibrous (turns yellow with age). After cutting, most species do not change their shade.
4. The tubular layer is easily separated from the cap and is distinguished by a deep groove near the stem. It is white, but with age it first becomes yellow, then olive.

This species of the bolet family penetrates far into the Arctic zone, grows over the vast territory of Russia from the Kola Peninsula to the Caucasus, from Chukotka to the western regions. It is rare in the tundra and forest-tundra; many myceliums are found in the northern taiga. It grows more often in lowland forests than in mountainous ones.

Varieties of porcini mushrooms can be seen not only in Russia, but also in other countries on all continents (except Australia).Among them:

• Iceland;
• British Isles;
• Japan;
• Mongolia;
• China;
• Turkey;
• Syria;
• Lebanon;
• territories from North America to Mexico;
• from Morocco to North Africa;
• in Europe - from Scandinavia to the southern regions of Italy.

In the southern part of America and Africa, New Zealand, spores are introduced with coniferous seedlings.

Giant mushrooms

But the largest edible mushroom was found by a certain Jean Guy Richard in Canada. In his basket was a unique raincoat (Calvatia gigantean). And he was really gigantic. The mushroom weighed exactly 22 kilograms and was 2.64 meters in circumference.

Giant mushroom weighing 22 kg

However, the Mexicans are really lucky. In the summer of 2007, a mushroom weighing about 20 kilograms and more than 60 centimeters long was found on coffee plantations in the Chiaps state of southeastern Mexico. It is noteworthy that it grew right among the coffee trees. Another edible record holder found in Italy weighed 14 kilograms. It was discovered by Francesco Quito in the province of Bari. And it was champignon. To carry such a find home, the mushroom picker had to look for a car.

The largest mushroom in Italy

Well, the previous giant mushroom turned out to be a truffle. True, he weighed a little less than his predecessors, only 7 kilograms. And the most interesting thing is that the people who found the mushroom did not find anything better than to fry and eat the find with their neighbors. And this is taking into account the fact that mushrooms in Italy are valued quite expensively, so the forest miracle could be sold at a profit. Another natural miracle was met in the forests of Switzerland. An interesting fact, the huge mushroom turned out to be a simple mushroom. Scientists were truly amazed by its size, because no one had ever suspected that mushrooms such as honey agarics could become giants. And in fact, the size of the mushroom can inspire respect. Its length is 800 meters, and its width is about half a kilometer. With its size, the mushroom covered 35 hectares. In principle, his age is not small, according to the most conservative estimates, one thousand years. Half-ton

Truffle

If the above listed mushrooms can be found or met in the forest, then truffles are not so easy to get. Firstly, because they grow underground, and secondly, their habitats are not so extensive. But, nevertheless, if you have heard about their incredible taste and aroma, and just dream of trying them, then you can visit some very expensive restaurant. Indeed, dishes with truffles are incredibly expensive, and they add very little to them. The most delicious of all types of truffles is royal. Accordingly, it is the most expensive.

Of course, the question arises as to why you have to pay so much. The whole reason is in their extreme rarity and inaccessibility and incredible taste and aroma.

Description:

• The fruit body has a diameter of 5-8 cm, weight about 300 g;
• Color from white to brown;
• Shape, similar to potatoes, round or oval, rough, not even;
• The pulp is light or brown, dense, with noticeable streaks.

Truffles are suitable for absolutely any dish. Most often they are prepared and served in expensive restaurants, since the price for one mushroom can go up to $ 1000.

Due to the abundant and bright aroma, very little truffles are added to the dishes.

Truffle

general information

Today man knows more than one hundred thousand species of these organisms. A certain percentage of them brings a lot of benefits to a person. Therefore, in all corners of the planet - in the USA and Russia, in Australia and Brazil - the edible mushroom is the basis of a variety of dishes. The product is used in the following areas:

1. Food industry: winemaking, production of fermented milk products, bakery and confectionery.
2. Medical industry: Penicillin is produced from mushrooms. as well as other medications and antibiotics.

They are partially used in veterinary medicine as a medicine, and also as a raw material for obtaining medicines.

The largest Russian mushrooms

In Russia, mushroom picking is a kind of national sport. It is no wonder that domestic mushroom pickers can boast of very large finds.

White mushroom

The largest white mushroom in Russia was found in 1961. Its weight was 10 kg, and the diameter of the cap was 58 cm. Unfortunately, information about the specific place where it was found has not been preserved. The find was widely reported on the radio and served as an impetus for an even greater increase in the number of mushroom pickers.

Nowadays, the record holder among porcini mushrooms was found on the island of Khachin (Seliger) in 2010.

Boletus

A huge boletus weighing 2.4 kg was discovered by an avid mushroom picker Alexei Korol from the Tomsk region. The length of its leg was 28 cm, and the diameter of the cap was 36 cm. Boletus boletus often suffer from worminess, however, this specimen was surprisingly healthy and edible.

Raincoat

In 2011, in the Perm Territory, mushroom picker Vladislav Grabosinsky came across a raincoat weighing almost 12 kg, with a circumference of 172 cm and a height of 50 cm. The weather that autumn had a giant mushroom growth: after prolonged rains it was damp and warm.

It was too late for this miracle of nature. The raincoat was taken for storage to the Department of Botany of the Perm University. Soon the find was included in the Guinness Book of Records.