Bear sawnose (lentinellus ursinus): what it looks like, where and how it grows, edible or not

The main differences between false oyster mushrooms

When asked whether false oyster mushrooms are poisonous, you can definitely answer - yes. But they only grow in Australia. In our latitudes, inedible or conditionally edible varieties are found. It is not difficult to distinguish such mushrooms.

The main differences between false oyster mushrooms

Orange oyster mushroom

Orange oyster mushroom, according to the species description, grows in large families mainly in deciduous forests. Found on linden, aspen, birch, prefers rotten stumps, dead wood. Feels good in temperate climates. Fruiting begins in September and lasts until November. In warm areas, the mushroom can grow even in winter. It is rare. It stands out strongly against the green background of foliage, thanks to the bright orange color of the cap. If oyster mushrooms survive the winter, the color becomes paler.

The main differences are:

• almost complete absence of a leg: mushrooms are attached to the wood with a cap;
• the cap is 2-8 cm in diameter, fan-shaped;
• the skin is fluffy and tough;
• unusual smell: young specimens have a melon aroma, mature ones smell like rotten cabbage;
• hymenophore: lamellar, its color is brighter (darker) than the color of the cap;
• the pulp is bitter, pale orange;
• spores are elongated, smooth;
• spore powder light pink or brown-pink.

Irina Selyutina (Biologist):

Sometimes you can meet orange oyster mushroom on sick or dying trees. Old reference books wrote rather evasively that this mushroom was "conditionally edible." Many modern identifiers indicate that this is a mushroom from the category of "inedible" (but not poisonous). Some mushroom pickers collect them, but only young fruit bodies with a melon aroma, but the old ones are bypassed because of the quality and a very unpleasant smell - some describe it as rotten cabbage, others as rotting carrots.

Orange oyster mushroom is used for landscape design. It is used to decorate gardens and yards, infecting trunks and tree stumps with mycelium.

Wolf saw-leaf

Wolfshawthorn also does not belong to the poisonous counterparts of edible oyster mushrooms. Its second name is bald sawnose. It grows on dead tree trunks and stumps. It is rarely found in deciduous and coniferous forests. It grows in Central Russia, North America, Canada, Europe (except for the southern regions). Fruiting from July to October.

To distinguish a mushroom, you should carefully study its description:

• the cap is kidney-shaped or lingual, 3-8 cm in diameter, the skin color is whitish-brown, yellow-red;
• the leg is dense, colored brown, almost black, not centered, 1 cm long, rudimentary (lost its significance in the process of evolution);
• the surface of the cap is felt, with small scales and growths;
• hymenophore: represented by plates, at first they are white-yellow, then they turn red, descending along the leg, frequent, wide;
• uneven, jagged edge on the back of the cap (the main difference), bent down;
• the flesh is whitish, tough, pungent;
• aroma is pronounced, mushroom;
• spore white powder.

Oyster mushroom green

Mushrooms need to be cooked properly

Oyster mushroom is often referred to as a false species. If not boiled properly, it will not be edible. The mushroom is of low quality, conditionally edible. Its second name is late oyster mushroom (autumn). The species is distinguished by late fruiting: from September to the first frost. Autumn oyster mushrooms resume their growth during thaws. They are found in February and March.

These mushrooms are found in mixed and deciduous forests of the European part of Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus, and North Asia. They are found individually or by families. They grow on wood, stumps and dead wood.

This type of mushroom is easy to distinguish, knowing its description:

• the cap is lateral, tongue-shaped, with a diameter of 3-15 cm;
• color from olive-brown to yellow-brown, turns pale in mature specimens;
• the skin is velvety, slimy in damp weather;
• the leg is short (up to 3 cm), dense, ocher-yellow, may be absent;
• the plates of the hymenophore are frequent, whitish in young mushrooms, then yellow-brown or olive;
• spore powder white-violet.

Overripe mushrooms become hard. After suffering frosts, they completely lose their taste. If the cold snap is prolonged, the fruiting bodies become unusable. They turn sour and die, as evidenced by the wine smell and mold on the plates.

Edible lentinellus aura

Lentinellus shell-shaped is an edible species. It is recommended to marinate and dry these mushrooms. But they are not very popular because of their excessively tough pulp and rather pungent aniseed odor.

Other mushrooms of this genus

Goblet sawfoot is an edible mushroom. The diameter of its cap reaches 15 centimeters, its shape changes from convex to funnel-shaped. The color of the cap is buffy-cream or rusty-brown. The surface is scaly. The height of the leg reaches 15 centimeters, and the thickness is 1.5 centimeters. The leg is cylindrical in shape, whitish in color with a reddish flaky bloom.

Goblet sawnets grow in deciduous and coniferous forests, they settle on stumps and dead wood. Fruiting from May to October. These are edible mushrooms, but their flesh is corky, very tough.

Tiger sawfoot is also an edible mushroom. The diameter of the cap of the tiger saw-leaf does not exceed 10 centimeters. Its shape changes from convex to funnel-shaped. The surface of the cap is whitish with brown or black-brown scales.

The height of the leg reaches 8 centimeters, it is curved, cylindrical, narrowed downwards, covered with scales.

Tiger saw-leaves grow on wood and deciduous stumps. They often settle in numerous colonies. Fruiting from spring to autumn. Tiger sawn leaf is a close relative of the Japanese shiitake, which has medicinal properties, so there is reason to believe that the sawleaf also contains active substances.

Types of sawfoot mushroom

Tiger saw-leaf (Lentinus tigrinus)

Conditionally edible mushroom.

The hat is 4-8 cm in diameter. Its surface is dry, dense, leathery. The color of the cap is white, whitish, with a yellow, creamy or nutty tint. On top of the cap there are concentric brown, almost black fibrous bristly scales, which are darker and densely located in its center. The shape of the cap in young mushrooms is convex, the edge is tucked down, later it becomes depressed in the center, or acquires a funnel-shaped shape, the edge is thin, uneven, and bursting. The leg is 3-8 cm high, about 1.5 cm wide, central. The structure of the leg is dense, rigid. The shape is cylindrical, narrows towards the base and stretches out in a tapered manner, even or curved. Sometimes a ring-shaped "belt" is located on the leg. At the plates, the leg is white, below the "girdle" it is dark, brownish, brownish. The surface of the peduncle is covered with small concentric, brown, sparse scales. The pulp is tough, thin, dense, leathery. The color of the flesh is white, sometimes it acquires a yellow tint with age. The smell and taste are not pronounced, but may depend on which tree stump the mushroom is growing on. Sometimes there is a "pungent" smell.

The mushroom is found throughout the northern hemisphere, in Europe and Asia, as well as in the Urals and the Far East. Usually inhabits forest belts, parks, along roadsides, as well as in places of mass felling of poplars. Sometimes it grows in cities.

The fruiting season for this species is summer-autumn, the mushroom appears en masse from late July to September. In the southern area, distribution is observed already in April. It grows in large intergrowths and groups on deadwood, stumps and trunks of deciduous trees (oak, poplar, willow, fruit trees).

Scaly saw-leaf (Lentinus lepideus)

Young mushrooms are classified as edible, as long as their pulp remains soft enough, mature mushrooms are not eaten.

The diameter of the mushroom cap is 3-12 cm. In young mushrooms, the cap is convex; as the fungus grows, it flattens and becomes funnel-shaped.The surface is dry, yellow, light brown or grayish white, covered with small brownish or brownish scales. Leg up to 6 cm in height, about 1-2.5 cm in thickness. Central, cylindrical, tapers downward, or becomes tapered elongated. The color of the leg is light, whitish, the surface is covered with scales of a red or reddish-brown color. The pulp is elastic, rigid structure with a pleasant mushroom aroma; in mature mature mushrooms, it is woody.

The fungus grows in the northern hemisphere, on the stumps of conifers, on fallen trees, sometimes it is found on telegraph poles and railway sleepers. Grows both singly and in small groups. The fruiting season lasts from early June to late September. Fruit bodies germinate slowly.

Poisonous and inedible species of sawfoot mushroom

Goblet saw-leaf (Lentinus cyathiformis)

Inedible mushroom due to the very high elasticity of the pulp.

The cap is funnel-shaped, up to 25 cm in diameter, reddish-beige in color, the surface is covered with irregular, weakly expressed concentric zones. In mature mushrooms, the cap fades to whitish, a dark spot remains in the center. The shape of the cap is hemispherical at first, gradually it opens and becomes funnel-shaped, the edge is uneven. The surface is dry, slightly fleecy. The pulp is white, elastic, has a pleasant smell that resembles the smell of fruit. The leg is short and thick, 3-8 cm high, 1-3 cm thick, tapers towards the base, the structure is rigid, the surface of the leg is almost completely covered with plates, blackish at the base.

The goblet saw-leaf grows on decaying deciduous trees (sometimes it also parasitizes living trees, causing white rot). It is a southern mushroom that is rarely found in the northern temperate latitudes. The fruit body grows for a long time.

Poisonous similar species of mushrooms for sawleafs are unknown. Due to their characteristic appearance, these mushrooms are not confused with poisonous species.

How to cook a mushroom properly?

It is suitable for pickling and salting, it is also boiled and dried. Cooking is not difficult, the main thing is to collect only young specimens, and to use exactly the hats for cooking. In older mushrooms, the flesh becomes too tough and inedible.

Primary processing before cooking

Since the mushroom does not grow on the ground, but on wood, its surface is usually clean. The legs should be cut and discarded and washed.

Cooking

The spatula is boiled in salted water for 30 minutes. After such processing, it can be added to stews or other dishes, cook soup with it. Sawwood goes well with meat.

Pickling

A marinade is prepared for boiled mushrooms. For 1 liter of water you will need:

• 1 tbsp. l. salt;
• 1 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• 1 laurel leaf;
• 3 carnation buds;
• 2 tsp vinegar;
• horseradish and currant leaves if desired;
• 3 cloves of garlic, minced.

All this is placed in a saucepan with water and put on the fire, after boiling mushrooms are poured into it, boiled for another 15 minutes. Then the sleepers are laid out on the banks, poured with marinade, closed with lids. Store them in the refrigerator on the bottom shelf.

Salting

Pre-boiled mushrooms are also used for her. After decanting from excess water, the saw-leaves are placed in a prepared container in layers, which are sprinkled with salt and favorite spices. It can be garlic, sweet peas, bay leaves, cloves and others.

Then everything is covered with gauze in several layers and pressed with a load. Mushrooms are salted for 40 days, while it is periodically necessary to rinse the fabric or lay a new one to avoid blooming. A week after the start of the process, the mushrooms should be completely covered with juice, if this has not happened, you need to increase the load or add salt water (1 liter - 2 tablespoons of salt).

At the end, the mushrooms should be laid out in jars, pour the remaining space with brine and put the product in a dark, cool place.

Drying

For her, the mushrooms also need to be boiled first, and then, laid out on a baking sheet, dried in the oven or airfryer. To make the process go faster, the caps should be cut into smaller pieces and periodically turned over. Drying will take at least 5 hours.

The spore mushroom is not common, so it is rarely harvested and eaten, but it is not considered poisonous. And in some countries it even refers to medicinal ones. It has no particular taste value, and is often referred to as the third or fourth group.

Whether or not to collect scaly saw leaves - everyone decides for himself, but if there are mushrooms in the forest that are tastier and healthier, then it is better to pay attention to them

Saw-leaf, Lentinus lepideus

Hat: With a diameter of 3-12 cm, fleshy, hemispherical or convex in young mushrooms, gradually opens and becomes thinner with age, acquiring a complex “convex-depressed” shape, often with uneven edges. The color of the cap is from off-white to equally dirty brown, the surface is dry, covered with velvety large scales, only slightly darker than the cap. The flesh of the cap is light, thick, very elastic, in old specimens it is dry, with a pleasant mushroom smell.

Hymenophore: The plates are deeply descending, relatively sparse, of medium width, cap color or somewhat lighter. A characteristic feature is the presence of noticeable "teeth" on the plates, which gave the name to the whole genus Sawfoot.

Spore powder: White.

Leg: Central or eccentric, often curved and thinned at the base, length and thickness vary greatly depending on growing conditions (thickness 1-3 cm, length 2-10 cm). The flesh of the leg is fibrous, very firm and dry.

Spreading: Occurs from mid-July to mid-September on the remains of conifers, not least on treated wood (sleepers, poles, etc. - it is no coincidence that the scaly leaf was called the “sleeper mushroom”), as a rule, rarely and not abundantly - one at a time specimen, less often in small groups. Fruit bodies develop slowly, decorating trunks and pillars with their presence for a long time. Destroying the processed wood of sleepers and poles, the mushroom is said to be of great national economic importance.

Similar species: Given the nature of its growth, it is very difficult to confuse Lentinus lepideus with any species other than closely related ones. (Although the author, for example, managed to confuse it with destructive flake, but this is simply from an excess of imagination and practical laziness.) The tiger saw-leaf (Lentinus tigrinus) is smaller, differs in a funnel-shaped cap and usually grows in aggregates.

Edibility: At a young age, they write, the mushroom is quite edible. A pleasant smell, of course, in a sense is conducive to experiments, but first you need to find these “young specimens”.

Author's notes: I have a rather strange embarrassment associated with the scaly leaf. Seeing a large, shaggy, whitish mushroom on a neighbor's pillar, erected only quite recently, for some reason I decided that I was seeing destructive flakes, which are all too often found in the Venevsky district; saw, and instead of critically comprehending what he saw, he composed a story that careless electricians put poplar instead of the ordered pine (or spruce) pillar, having cut down a random tree in the trash heap, and the mushroom gave them away. The story may be spectacular, but completely unreliable, and worse, easily verifiable: the refutation is pecked out by itself after the first clean glance at the photograph of the “scale”. Of course, this is a real sleeper mushroom, which means that the electricians suffered feuilleton criticism in vain. The pillar for our neighbors was really coniferous - the mushroom won't lie. That's how a person would be.

The wire on the right adds technogenicity to the picture. A sleeper-and-pillar mushroom, a scaly leaf-leaf, rose on a practically new electric pole, and stayed in a relatively unchanged form for a good month, and then suddenly disappeared somewhere overnight.Presumably, the nerves of the neighbors could not stand it - apparently, they have met little "eternal" mushrooms so far. And Lentinus lepideus is one of those, and the epithet “edible at a young age” can actually mean that it should be collected only in the first three days out of thirty possible.

Growing up on a decent substrate, not on a post or fence, Neolentinus lepideus looks quite respectable, more like some very large scale.

When put in a research perspective, the scaly sawfoot demonstrates all the qualities of a strong mushroom, ready to overcome any difficulties on the way to a great goal. Here and scaly, and serration of the plates; the sleeper firmness of the pulp is not visible, but, undoubtedly, it is guessed.

By old age (and it can last indefinitely), the scaly saw-leaf becomes coarse, hardened, showing with all its appearance that it is not going to surrender to the inexorable time without a fight. At such a moment, it is easy to not recognize it, or even confuse it from a distance with some kind of flake.

Bear saw-leaf (Lentinellus ursinus)

Current title

Systematic position

Etymology of the species epithet

Synonyms

• Agaricus ursinus Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 185 (1821)
• Lentinus ursinus (Fr.) Fr., Epicr. syst. mycol. (Upsaliae): 395 (1838)
• Hemicybe ursina (Fr.) P. Karst., Bidr. Känn. Finl. Nat. Folk 32: 248 (1879)
• Pocillaria ursina (Fr.) Kuntze, Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 2: 866 (1891)
• Resupinatus ursinus (Fr.) Murrill, N. Amer. Fl. (New York) 9 (4): 246 (1915)
• Panellus ursinus (Fr.) Murrill, N. Amer. Fl. (New York) 9 (4): 246 (1915)
• Pocillaria pelliculosa (Schwein.) Kuntze, Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 2: 866 (1891)

Other names: Lentinellus bearish.

Habit

Fruit body: Sedentary, cantilever, hoof-shaped, in the form of an irregular growth or rosette

Hymenophore: Lamellar (including folded or with rudimentary plates)

Fruiting body

Fruit bodies in the form of sessile shell-shaped tiled caps of a hard-fleshy consistency, usually accrete in 2 - 3, limb from the substrate 10 - 50 mm. The surface is smooth or finely streaked, pale brown and paler along the edge when fresh, when dry, umber-brown with a wine-red tint, near the base is usually covered with whitish, subsequently darkening pubescence. The edge is sharp, slightly curling when dry.

The hymenophore is lamellar, the plates diverge radially from the point of attachment to the substrate, thin, frequent, in a fresh state, waxy-fleshy, cream-colored, easily breaking apart when dry and darkening to pale brown, with serrate-cut edges.

Spore powder is white.

Pulp

The pulp is 2 - 5 mm thick, hard-fleshy, light creamy to bluish-reddish, with a distinct sourish unpleasant odor.

Microscopy

Spores (3.6) 3.8 - 4.2 (4.5) × (2.7) 3 - 3.2 (3.5) μm, broadly ellipsoid, with a slightly thickened warty membrane, amyloid, cyanophilic.

Basidia 12 - 20 × 3 - 5 μm, clavate, with a distinct central constriction, 4-spore.

Pleurocystids - gleocystids or leptocystids 15 - 22 × 3.5 - 5 microns, fusiform, ampoule or bottle-shaped, thin-walled, with yellowish or colorless contents.

Cheilocystids are gleocystids 20 - 28 × 3 - 7 microns, ampoule or cylindrical, thin-walled or with thickened, sometimes uneven walls.

The hyphalous system is monomytic. The hyphae of tissue are 2 - 3 microns in diameter, thin-walled to moderately thick-walled, with buckles, free-lying, sinuous, with hyaline or light-refracting contents (gleopleroid hyphae). In the subhymenia, the hyphae are strongly agglutinated, almost indistinguishable, forming a pseudoparenchyma; in the mediostratus of the plates, they are parallel, densely packed, amyloid.

Gleopleroid hyphae in the mediostratus of the plates 2.5 - 6 µm in diameter, thin-walled or with slightly thickened walls, swollen, with a variable diameter, with yellow contents in Meltzer's reagent.

Ecology and distribution

Substance: Woody plants (living trees, bark and dead wood)

On dry trunks and fallen trees of deciduous trees, sometimes found on conifers.

Fruiting

The end of summer, the beginning of autumn.

The divisions correspond to the decades of the month.

Nutritional properties

Inedible due to bitter taste.

Similar species

• Beaver sawnose (Lentinellus castoreus) - very similar in appearance, on average with larger fruiting bodies, reaching 100 mm in diameter, the surface at the base without pubescence.Prefers coniferous substrates.
• The fox sawnose (Lentinellus vulpinus) is also very similar in appearance, macroscopically distinguished by the presence of a short, almost rudimentary eccentric leg, microscopically by the absence of an amyloid reaction on the pulp hyphae and, on average, by larger spores.

Leg. Height up to 7 cm, diameter up to 1.5 cm, cylindrical, often curved, dense, of the same color with the cap, yellow at the bottom.

Spore powder. Yellow-brown.

Habitat. Most often it grows in pine forests, less often in spruce, mixed and deciduous forests.

Season. Summer autumn.

Similarity. It looks a bit like a goat (Suillus bovinus) growing in the same places, but as soon as you lick the pepper mushroom under the cap, it immediately manifests itself.

Use. The mushroom is called inedible in many sources, but it can be used instead of pepper when pickling.

Medicinal properties. Pepper mushroom is used in small amounts as a condiment to stimulate digestion. Goat is one of the leaders among cap mushrooms in terms of antibiotic content.

Sawleaf

The cap is 5-10 (20) cm in diameter, initially slightly convex or flat, later funnel-shaped, goblet. The skin is slightly scaly, fissured, creamy, reddish-buffy, yellowish. The plates are frequent, not wide, with a serrated edge, descending along the pedicle, off-white, creamy at maturity. Spore powder is white.

Spores 9-15x3.5-5.5 microns, ellipsoidal, smooth, colorless. Stem 5-15x1.2-1.5 cm, eccentric or central, one-color with a cap or slightly lighter, whitish at the plates, covered with a reddish bloom below. The flesh is dense, white, does not change color. The smell and taste are pleasant (sometimes the smell is harsh).

It develops on dead trunks and stumps of deciduous, less often coniferous, species. It occurs more often in small groups in summer and autumn.

An edible but very tough mushroom. They use only the caps of young specimens. Sometimes it is positioned as inedible.

May be similar to some other saw-leaves, for example, scaly saw-leaf (Lentinus lepideus).

Saw-leaf scaly

Grows on coniferous wood, stumps, dead trunks, poles and sleepers in July - August.

The cap is 4-15 cm in diameter, initially convex, with a curled edge, then flat or funnel-shaped, light ocher, with dark reddish scales.

The pulp is white, in young mushrooms it is soft, tender, then hard, with a pleasant smell, without a special taste.

The plates are adherent to the peduncle or descending along it, whitish or yellowish, wide, with an uneven jagged edge. Spores are white, ellipsoidal.

Leg 3-8 cm long, 1-3 cm thick, central or eccentric, narrowed below, dense, with reddish scales, smooth above.

The mushroom is edible, of the third category. Only young fresh, pickled and salted mushrooms are eaten.

Tiger saw-leaf

It grows on stumps or dead wood, mainly deciduous species. Sometimes it settles in large groups. Fruiting in August - September.

The cap is up to 10 cm in diameter, funnel-shaped, with a curled edge, white, covered with brown or almost black scales.

The pulp is white, dense, slightly reddening at the break, without any special taste or smell.

The plates are serrated, descending along the pedicle, whitish, cream, narrow. Spore powder is white. The spores are granular or ellipsoidal.

Leg up to 8 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm thick, dense, white, dark brown below.

The mushroom is edible, little known. Fresh young mushrooms are eaten.

Description

Bear saw-leaf is an inedible tree fungus, practically indistinguishable from a related species - wolf saw-leaf.

Hat

It grows up to 10 cm in transverse size. Its shape can be either round or in the form of a kidney. The edges of the cap are pointed, prone to drying, while curling downward. The color is predominantly brown; in dried specimens, a reddish tint of the cap may be observed. The surface is velvety and pubescent to the touch; pubescence is especially pronounced in the center of the cap.

Spore-bearing layer

Plates are white and pink. They are characterized by sawtooth edges.With age and when dry, they darken and acquire fragility.

Pulp

Cream color, rather tough, with maturity it acquires a darker color. Its taste is described as acrid, pungent, or simply bitter. The smell is also not very pleasant: most sources describe it as sour.

Wolves' saw-leaf (fox saw-leaf, felt, Lentinellus vulpinus) what it looks like, where and how

Wolf saw-leaf (fox saw-leaf, felt): photo and description

Wolfsweed is a mushroom of the Polyporov family of the genus Sawwood. It got its own name because of the destructive effect on wood, and the plates of the cap have a serrated edge, similar to the teeth of a saw.

How does wolf sawnose look like

The fruit body has the shape of a growth that appears on the tree trunk at an angle of 90 °. It consists of a flattened cap and a leg that is not visible.

Description of the hat

The shape of the hat is quite appropriate to compare with the tongue, sometimes the ear or the shell. Its diameter is 3-8 cm, however, there are also very large mushrooms. Color - light brown, yellow-red. The edges are gradually wrapped inside the cap. The surface is uneven, felt. Hence the second name - felt saw-leaf. Sometimes you can see the whole accumulations of sawfoot, from a distance it resembles a tiled roof.

Leg description

There is no pronounced border between the leg and the cap. The lamellar surface inside with longitudinal fibers slowly transforms into a leg with a height of only 1 cm.

In young saw-leaved plants, it is light, almost white, in overripe, it is dark, in places black. The soft, tender pulp gradually thickens, becomes tough.

Where and how it grows

The wolf sawnose is distributed throughout the temperate climatic zone from Canada and the United States to the Far East of our homeland. They are also found in the Caucasus. Mushrooms are undemanding to heat, unassuming. They begin to grow from August to the end of November. Their main place of growth is the trunks of rotting stumps, deciduous trees. These are saprotrophs that destroy wood.

Eat a mushroom or not

Regardless of the good mushroom aroma emanating from wolf sawfoot, it is considered inedible. The pungent taste does not disappear even after cooking. There is no information about the toxicity.

Doubles and their differences

These saprotrophs are difficult to confuse with other fungi. However, there are types of fruiting bodies that are very similar to wolf sawnose. Among them:

1. Edible oyster mushrooms in shape are difficult to distinguish from saw-leaf. But they have a light gray color, sometimes they acquire a purple hue. The surface of the cap is smooth, slightly velvety. Grows in deciduous, coniferous forests.
2. Another type of oyster mushroom is confused with felt-leaved leaf - autumn. It arises early in the spring, grows until the prolonged autumn in the north of the Caucasus Mountains and in the temperate latitudes of the European Russian territory. Color - olive brown. The hat has a wavy surface. It becomes glossy during the rainy season. Do not eat because of the bitter taste.

Conclusion

Wolf sawnose is not dangerous and is not poisonous. However, you should not experiment with cooking: the results may not be very pleasant.

Conclusion

There are not many false species of oyster mushrooms growing on our territory. They are not poisonous, but you should not eat such mushrooms: they contain a lot of bitterness.

Even species that are suitable for use in cooking can cause poisoning. Fruit bodies collected in the wrong place (near the road, industrial enterprises) are oversaturated with harmful substances. Even improper storage and preparation will degrade the quality of the food.

It is known that if you want to collect fresh and tasty mushrooms, you need to go to the forest. But there are quite edible species of them that are found in unusual places. For example, the sleeper mushroom feels great on processed wood - poles or railway sleepers.