Silent Hunt is popular all year round and in all regions of Russia. The Urals is a favorable region for collecting almost all edible mushroom species. There is a long-term list of places where honey mushrooms grow in the Sverdlovsk region.
Honey mushrooms in the Sverdlovsk region
Features of the region
Sverdlovsk Region is an administrative district in the Urals. The relief is represented by mountains, steppes, plains. Forests cover 82.3% of the total area. The following woody vegetation is represented here:
- birch - 36%;
- pines - 34%;
- ate - 16%;
- aspens and cedars - 6%.
Due to the abundance of vegetation in the region, different types of mushrooms bear fruit. Honey mushrooms are considered the most popular among local residents. They grow in forests, meadows, mountain groves and city parks.
Honey mushrooms are earthy and woody. Mushrooms choose hardwood. They often grow on stumps. They do not change the place of fruiting for a long time - in one place they bear fruit up to 5-10 years.
Types of honey agarics in the Sverdlovsk region
Edible species:
- spring;
- summer;
- autumn;
- winter;
- meadow.
They are named after the periods or place of fruiting. The winter species is not afraid of temperatures down to -6 ° C. The pulp of the fruit bodies freezes, but remains tasty, so the "hunt" for them continues until the first snow, when the mushroom caps will not be visible under the cover.
The spring view is shown after the first thaws. And summer ones are harvested from late May to mid-August. From August to the end of October, the autumn species bears fruit.
On the territory of the Sverdlovsk region, there are also poisonous species of false hornets. Therefore, be careful when collecting and do not confuse poisonous mushrooms with true ones:
- the false foam is brick brown.
- false froth is sulfur-yellow.
- the gallery is bordered.
Irina Selyutina (Biologist):
It is believed that the bordered gallery is most similar to summer mushroom (Kuehneromyces mutabilis), but there are differences:
- Splices: gallerina can grow in groups, but usually not 2-3 grow together, while many fruit bodies grow together in the mushroom.
- Fruit body dimensions: the summer mushroom is larger than that of the gallery (up to 6 cm in diameter.
- Lower part of the leg: scaly mushroom, in gallerina - fibrous.
- Pulp: in the mushroom with a fruity taste and smell, in the gallery - they are expressionless, mealy
FROM woody honeydew, or spring (Kuehneromyces lignicola), gallerina has a great similarity, so you need to look at the absence of scales on the leg under the ring in this species of mushroom.
Autumn mushrooms (Armillaria mellea, Armillaria borealis) is very difficult to confuse with the bordered gallery. The only thing that unites them is growth on wood.
The difference between the gallery and winter mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) is the time of its fruiting (mass).
Due to the relief, in the Sverdlovsk region there is a long list of objects where mushroom lovers go on a "quiet hunt".
List of places for quiet hunting
Don't pick mushrooms in the city
Honey mushrooms grow in Yekaterinburg in groves and parks. It is dangerous to collect fruit bodies within the city limits - it is fraught with any, the most unexpected problems from the gastrointestinal tract. This is due to the fact that they are capable of absorbing toxins and heavy metal salts with their entire surface, which do not decompose during processing. Therefore, it is better to head to the forests of the area.
Mushroom areas
There are 3 types of forests in the region: dry, wet and forest-steppe. In dry stands, fruiting begins in September after heavy rains. This includes forests in the mountains and at their foot. Because of the cool climate, there are few mushrooms here, they appear relatively late and quickly leave. These are the mountainous regions of Ivdelsk and neighboring cities.
In a damp forest (swampy area), mushrooms bear fruit from early spring to autumn. But high humidity is also favorable for poisonous twins. This is the east of the districts:
- Novolyalinsky;
- Ivdelsky;
- Garinsky;
- Turinsky;
- Serovsky;
- Taborinsky;
- Tavrinsky.
Northern subjects of "quiet hunting" - Krasnouralskiy, Irbitskiy, Artemovskiy regions. The swamps here are dangerous with swamps and winding paths. Rescuers are often looking for lost hunters.
The forest-steppe occupied the south of the region. Mixed and birch plantings grow there. Many fields are habitats of meadow species. The most productive areas for production:
- Artinsky;
- Krasnoufimsky;
- Achitsky.
Fruiting of mushrooms in the forest-steppe zone is highly dependent on weather conditions. In a cold and dry summer, you should not look for mushrooms there.
Places near nature reserves and lakes are considered mushroom. The catch there is always large and, most importantly, environmentally friendly. They often go for trophies to the Baltym and Shuvakish lakes. You can get to them by electric trains or minibuses. The surroundings of the Visim reserve are rich in mushrooms. In a warm, humid spring, they find a delicious species - morels.
It is advised not to bypass the villages and settlements of Verkhneye Dubrovo, Aramil, Bobrovka, the city of Revda. Mushrooms grow abundantly in the area of the Pervouralsky tract. They "hunt" in the mushroom season not far from Beloyarsky.
Silent Hunt: Honey mushrooms September 2019
Quiet hunting for white mushroom 2019 (Sverdlovsk region)
Suburbs of Yekaterinburg
Honey mushrooms grow in the Sverdlovsk region in the vicinity of Yekaterinburg. The collection points are found within easy reach of the suburban railway and bus routes. These include:
- Ilmovka village: rich in forests, ravines, log cabins where mushrooms settle.
- Mixed forest near Sysertsk.
- Neighborhoods of Nizhny Tagil.
- settlement Reshety.
- dir.
- Kamensk-Uralsky.
- More distant, but less crowded towns of Nizhnie Sergi and Mikhailovsk.
It is definitely not necessary to take forest specimens of edible species near the Sredneuralsky and Kirovograd copper-smelting plants. Edible species in contaminated areas are dangerous, just like poisonous ones, because they collect various toxins from the environment.
Conclusion
In the Sverdlovsk Region there is a long list of places where mushroom hunting is productive during the mushroom season. These are different types of forests, neighborhoods of settlements and villages, places near the regional center - Yekaterinburg. You can get there by train or by car. When collecting mushrooms, you should be careful not to collect poisonous ones.