Horny yellow

False doubles

Ramaria golden has many similar counterparts. They are also coral, but inedible, some are even poisonous. Novice mushroom pickers who are unable to distinguish a real golden horned from a false double should not take them.

A blunt slingshot is inedible. It tastes bitter. The ends of the branches are rounded. They meet him more often in Siberia. The place of growth is mixed forests with an admixture of fir.

The gummy calocera is an inedible twin. It can be found on stumps and dead wood. It is painted bright yellow. It has a dense, jelly-like flesh.

Ramaria is beautiful, poisonous. A distinctive feature is the appearance of a reddish tint when pressing on the fruiting body. The lower part of the processes is white-yellow in color. Older specimens become brownish brown.

Ramaria tough is classified as an inedible mushroom. The pulp has a bitter, pungent taste. The smell is pleasant. Has a different color: yellow, brown. If you press on the pulp, it will change color to burgundy red.

Similar species [edit | edit code]

The genus of plutes has more than 140 species, some of which are difficult to distinguish among themselves.

• Black-sided plute, Pluteus atromarginatus (Singer) Kühn. , Is a more rare species, which is distinguished by a blackish cap and darkly colored edges of the plates. Grows on semi-rotten coniferous trees.
• Pouzar's worm, Pluteus pouzarianus Singer, is distinguished by the presence of buckles on the hyphae, which is distinguishable only under a microscope. It develops on soft trees, devoid of a distinct odor.
• Similar representatives of a related genus Volvariella differ in the presence of a Volvo.
• Similar representatives of the genus Entoloma have adherent plates instead of free ones. They grow on soil.
• Collibia broad-lamellar, Megacollybia platyphylla (Pers.) Kotl. & Pouzar, is an inedible or conditionally edible mushroom, characterized by sparse, whitish or creamy plates and characteristic strands at the base of the stem.

Answers to common questions

The unusual shape of mushrooms raises a lot of questions from mushroom pickers:

When collecting any mushrooms, some rules should be strictly observed: the crop is cut, not plucked by the root; the earth and moss in the forest should not be stirred up or dug up too much; picking mushrooms in reserves is prohibited; mass collection of any species will certainly lead to its extinction.

The rubbery flesh of a calocera has a reddish tint. The false mushroom has no taste and smell. The fruit body has pointed branches and is colored dark yellow or orange. True yellow corals are very similar to calocera, for which the cartilaginous and gelatinous consistency of the fruit body is not characteristic.

The coral hedgehog is one of the more unusual members of its family. It is famous not only for its interesting shape, but also for its good taste. But when collecting this species, you should be extremely careful, because it can be easily confused with false corals.

Reindeer horns need to be cooked correctly. The main condition is the use of young specimens. The product can be salted, fried, dried. The slingshot tastes like chicken or shrimp. The pulp is tender. The official name is Ramaria yellow. Grows in deciduous and mixed forests. The best time to harvest is late August or early September.

Characteristics of inedible deer horns

There are several varieties of mushrooms that, in appearance, and sometimes in smell and taste, can be very similar to yellow horned heads, but are not eaten due to toxicity or unpleasant taste.

Clavulina coral

Found in deciduous forests from July to October, most of the fruits can be found in mid-September. It is characterized by flat scallop twigs.The base of the mushroom forms a small stem up to 5 cm. The comb tops are white or cream. It was not used in cooking due to its low taste and bitterness.

Clavulina coral

Ramaria is beautiful

It is a poisonous variety that disrupts the digestive tract. Differs in such structural features as:

• height up to 20 cm;
• bright pink in unripe fruits and brown-brown in old ones;
• dense and massive leg;
• highly branched processes.

Ramaria is beautiful

Ramaria is tough

The fungus is characterized by a large number of branches of the same height. The place of damage is painted in burgundy red. The diameter of the ramaria stalk is no more than 1 cm, the height is up to 6 cm. Near the base of the stalk, clusters of mycelium are found in the form of thin filaments.

Ramaria is tough

Fawn horned

Another name for the mushroom is fawn clavulinopsis. Reaches a height of 3-6 cm, less often - 10 cm. Mushrooms of this variety stretch into an oblong stem with a diameter of up to 1 cm. The shape of the mushroom is simple, slightly branched. The color is usually deep yellow, but the base is light. Fawn horns appear in August-September.

Clavulinopsis fawn

Characteristic features of the variety

The coral's botanical name is Ramaria yellow, which belongs to the Horned family. The slingshot shape resembles branched deer antlers or underwater coral.

Description of deer horns and photo of a mushroom

The photo clearly shows that the ground part of the deer antlers mushroom is very branched.

Its color depends on several factors:

• habitats;
• climate features;
• age.

Branches can be colored beige, light brown, light yellow, orange or purple. Basically, the height of the fruit body does not exceed 7 cm, but the width varies from 15 to 30 cm. When pressed on the fruit, a light brown tint appears. The cuticle has a marbled yellow color. The mushroom has a pleasant aroma that resembles the smell of freshly cut grass.

Morphology

The tops of old horned horns accumulate substances that give it a bitter taste. Therefore, the upper branches are not used for food. The mushroom itself differs in taste from its congeners, because it does not have a pronounced mushroom taste. Raw slingshots are quite elastic, and after cooking they become harsh.

Very similar to golden-yellow ramaria hedgehogs. The differences between these specimens can only be seen under a microscope. Nothing terrible would have happened if you cut off the double, because both ramaria are edible.

Place of distribution

This species is extremely rare. You can find such a treasure in the regions of the Far East, Karelia, the Caucasus, Western and Eastern Siberia, as well as in the Crimea. Most of the inhabitants of the central part of our country do not even know about the existence of such "forest bread".

This is due to the peculiarities of the growth of horned beetles. They live in humid and shaded places. Most often they can be found in a pine or deciduous forest, where the most valuable specimens grow.

Edible or inedible

Horned beetles are both edible and inedible. In this regard, you should carefully study the yellow ramaria so that you can distinguish it from other relatives. All black man's twins are moderately poisonous or conditionally edible, so eating them cannot be fatal.

Ramaria yellow is an edible mushroom, but it is important to follow some precautions before eating. Only the base is used for cooking, because the branches have a bitter taste. Overripe fruits are considered unusable due to the large accumulation of bitterness

Overripe fruits are considered unsuitable due to the large accumulation of bitterness.

Description

In science, this one is called Hericium coralloides (Horny or Ramaria). It belongs to the 4th edible group, the higher class. These are basidiomecetes, which are popularly called hedgehogs, forest corals, deer horns or horns. Horned mushrooms have the following description:

• erect rod-shaped, branched in shape;
• the color is often white, gray, yellow or cream;
• diameter - from 16 to 30 cm;
• height - up to 25 mm;
• bitter taste;
• the aroma is unpleasant, pungent;
• weight - up to 1 kg.

The surface color changes with the age of the fungus. The old reed horn becomes amethyst or orange.

Beautiful and unusual to the eye, horned mushrooms are listed in the Red Book of Russia. They inhabit shaded thickets on decayed foliage or rotten fallen tree trunks. The ramaria mushroom loves wet places, the period of its active growth is from mid-summer to the end of October.

The reed hornworm does not infect worms, the only pest is the wireworm.

It is easy to grow such "corals" at home using conventional technology.

Cooking meals

Every mushroom picker is interested in how to cook reindeer horns. There are not many recipes where they are used as an ingredient. But the basic cooking methods are the same as with other mushrooms. Those lucky enough to find them can make some delicious dishes out of them.

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Mushroom salad

This nutritious and wholesome dish is sure to brighten up any meal. To prepare it you will need:

• mushrooms (boiled) - 200 g;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• onion head;
• carrots - 200 g;
• apple cider vinegar 6% - 1 tbsp;
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp;
• salt to taste;
• greens;
• black pepper.

Cooking method:

1. Chop the mushrooms and combine with finely chopped carrots and garlic.
2. Add salt, pepper, half a tablespoon of vinegar to the mixture. Pour in oil and leave for half an hour.
3. Pour onion sliced ​​into half rings with the remaining vinegar.
4. Mix all ingredients and add chopped herbs.

Fried slingshot

For frying, you need to take dried mushrooms. Before cooking, they are soaked in water for 1 hour to swell.

1. Squeeze the mushrooms and cut into small strips.

2. Put butter in a preheated pan.
3. Put the hornets in a frying pan, season with salt and pepper and cook for 10 minutes over medium heat with the lid closed.
4. After that, evaporate the excess liquid and cook without a lid for 5-10 minutes.

You can add onion and parsley to taste, and take vegetable oil.

Those who have tasted and appreciated the dishes made from reindeer horns, no doubt, will not leave them without attention. And every slingshot you meet in the forest will cheer you up, like a good friend. Array

Ramaria

The ramaria mushroom, which no longer looks like a mushroom, but some kind of coral, is found most often in coniferous forests, especially in pine forests.

The ramarias do not have the usual division into a leg and a hat. Their fruiting bodies are cylindrical, and branch, as biologists say, dichotomously - this is when a trunk is divided first into two, then each of them is divided into two more, and so on.

The ramaria is painted only on top, its inner layers are white, when pressed, they can turn yellow. Almost the entire surface of the fruiting body is its hymenial layer (i.e., the layer in which spores form).

The young mushroom is yellow, with age its color becomes more intense, and the fruit body is colored orange and even reddish.

In terms of its biological characteristics, ramaria (as well as other horned beetles) is close to chanterelles. However, most mycologists prefer not to talk about the direct relationship of these fungi, claiming that horned, chanterelle, blackberry and agaric mushrooms once had a common ancestor. To which modern slingshots in their structure and some other features are nevertheless closer.

Ramaria is possibly capable of forming mycorrhiza with some trees, in particular with pine and spruce. But even this fact of her life remains unexplored and in many respects mysterious.

Ramaria is considered an edible mushroom of the 4th category. They write that it has a pleasant bitter taste. But only young fruiting bodies should be harvested, a mature mushroom becomes bitter.

However, this is only information taken from the literature (albeit quite serious - for example: "The World of Plants" v.2, - M .: "Education", 1991). I have not tasted ramaria (yes, butter mushrooms, chanterelles, milk mushrooms and other "traditional" mushrooms are quite happy!). Therefore, I do not recommend anything to anyone.

But the mushroom is beautiful! And I think he greatly adorns our forests in August-September, when his bizarre fruiting bodies appear.

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The hat is 4-10 (15) cm in diameter, in some specimens it can reach 24 cm; broadly bell-shaped, then convex or flat-spread, with a faintly marked tubercle in the center. The surface of the cap is smooth, silky; radially fibrous, often radially cracking at maturity; dry or slightly mucous (in wet weather). The color of the cap is usually gray, greyish brown, although it can range to dark brown and black; in the center, the cap is usually darker, striped along the edge, slightly ribbed; tends to fade in dry weather.

The pulp is white, soft, brittle, fibrous in the stem, tough, without any special smell and taste, or with a weak radish odor. When cut, the color of the pulp does not change.

The plates are 10-15 mm wide, frequent, free at the stem, rounded at the edge of the cap, wide, thick, whitish in young mushrooms, then, as the spores mature, pink, in old mushrooms meat-red.

Leg 5-15 × 0.8-2 cm, cylindrical, dense, solid, white or whitish-gray, with longitudinal brown fibers, which usually brighten towards the cap, less often with a moire pattern, often slightly swollen, clavate at the base ; it can be strongly curved. Easily detaches from the cap.

Spore powder pink. Spores 8-9 x 5-6 microns, short-ellipsoidal, smooth, pinkish. Cystids with thick walls and apical appendages ("horns").

Taxonomy, characteristics and description of the structure

The yellow horned belongs to the species Ramaria yellow, the genus Ramaria, the Gomf family. Other names: Ramaria yellow, Horny yellow, Bear's paw, Coral yellow. The name in Latin is Ramaria flava.

The height of the slingshot sometimes reaches 20 cm. The diameter may be the same. The fruit body is highly branched, consisting of fleshy, sulfur-yellow or lemon-yellow branches. Later they change color to ocher or orange. The tops of the branches are blunt, with incorrectly truncated ends.

The pulp is fragile, has a watery consistency. Its color is light, yellowish, the smell is weak, pleasant, flour, the taste is inexpressive. As the fruiting body ages, it becomes bitter, especially in the branches.

The leg reaches 8 cm in length and 5 cm in thickness. It is colored in all shades of yellow, depending on the color of the entire fruit, brightens closer to the base. When pressed, it turns reddish brown.

The spore powder is white; the spores themselves are formed on the outer surface of the fungus.

A bit of history

This species was first described by the scientist Joseph de Tournefort, a French botanist, in 1755. The binomial name ramaria yellow received thanks to Lucien Kele, the founder of the French Mycological Society, in 1888.

Views

These organisms are divided into edible and inedible. There are no horns dangerous to human life and health. For a mushroom picker, edible horned mushrooms are a real find if you know how to cook them correctly. These mushrooms are relatives of chanterelles.

Edible species include:

• golden;
• amethyst;
• aciniform;
• yellow;
• truncated;
• reed.

Inedible species:

• fusiform;
• comb;
• pale yellow;
• purple;
• pistillate
• fistful;
• straight.

Edible baby horned mushrooms are pleasantly scented and easy to cook. Most often they give a large harvest.

Reed horn

The reed horn (Clavariadelphus ligula) is an edible species with a pale yellow tint. It belongs to saprophytes of the 4th category of edibility.

Its branches are in the form of a cylinder, thin, widened at the bottom.The appearance resembles a human tongue sticking out of the ground, hence the name. The reed horned grows in coniferous forests in whole groups in the form of circles, which the foresters call witch.

Their size is small, up to 10 cm in height. The collection begins at the end of summer.

Ramaria

Forest corals - this is the name of ramaria, which grows in pine forests. Its trunk is incredibly beautiful and looks like a branchy marine organism that accidentally got into the forest thicket. The appearance of ramaria is characterized by:

• dichotomous trunk;
• white color of the inner layer;
• hymenial surface (having spores);
• yellow.

With age, ramaria changes color to orange-red. It is believed that chanterelles and horned ones have common ancestors, so they have a certain similarity in structure.

Ramaria forms mycosis with spruce and pine. It can be eaten, but it has a bitter taste, so it should be harvested at the end of August and September, since young ramaria tastes less bitter.

Beautiful horned

It is a poisonous mushroom that grows in deciduous and mixed forests. It is characterized by:

• height - 20 cm;
• diameter - 18-20 cm;
• short, thick and dense leg;
• bright pink color in young organisms.

Old ramarias become whitish, branch strongly at the bottom, the tips of the branches first turn yellow, and then brown or brown.

Eating food leads to disruption of the gastrointestinal tract.

Comb slingshot

An inedible forest organism that bears fruit in conifers, deciduous and mixed forests from the second half of July to the end of October. Grows in groups of bushes. It has a comb-like shape and a cream or white body color, at the base of which there is a thick, dense leg.

The pulp has a characteristic bitterness. She is fragile and delicate, without a bright aroma.

Evaluation of taste, chemical composition, benefits and possible harm

Despite the fact that antlers are classified as mushrooms of the fourth category due to the presence of characteristic bitterness during the growth process, they are quite tasty when young and can be prepared in the same way as most other edible species.

Chemical composition per 100 grams of mushroom:

• 2 g protein;
• about 4.5 g of fat;
• almost 3 g of carbohydrates.

The average calorie content is 55 kcal per 100 g.

The benefits of yellow ramaria are as follows:

1. Prevention of the appearance of malignant neoplasms.
2. Removal of depressive conditions and normalization of the mental state.
3. Strengthening blood vessels, stabilizing the work of the cardiovascular system.
4. Getting rid of diseases of the bronchopulmonary system, respiratory organs.
5. Prevention of thrombosis, normalization of blood pressure.
6. Improving immunity.
7. Cleansing the body, removing toxins and decay products.

The main field of application of yellow corals in cosmetology is anti-aging procedures. Deer horns have the ability to retain moisture in the epithelial layers, their effectiveness is several times higher than the properties of glycerin and hyaluronic acid. The natural polysaccharides contained in the chemical composition act as conductors of nutrients to the deep layers of the skin, and vitamin D activates metabolic processes.

Potential harm from consumption is also present. Like any other type of mushroom, yellow horned mushrooms are forbidden to be eaten by children under 12 years old, pregnant and lactating women, people with chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and a tendency to allergic manifestations.