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The breast is golden-yellow from the Russula family, inedible due to its bitter juice. Known as: golden milky milkweed, golden milky milkweed, Lactarius chrysorrheus.
Description of golden yellow milk mushroom
The species differs from other milkweeds in color. A detailed description of the mushroom will prevent it from being confused with other representatives of the forest kingdom.
Description of the cap
The convex cap gradually opens, a depression is formed in the center, and the strongly tucked edges of the old fruiting bodies are wavy and curved upward. The smooth skin is matte, shiny in the rain, with pronounced spots and circular zones.The width of the cap is 4-10 cm. The color ranges from ocher, pale salmon or orange-pink to red.
The thick flesh is brittle, odorless, and yellow when cut due to the oozing whitish juice, peppery in taste, which quickly turns yellow. The thick plates are bifurcated towards the end; in young specimens they are white, in old specimens they are creamy-pink.
Description of the leg
The cylindrical leg is low, up to 8 cm, with age-related changes:
- first with a powdery, whitish, then with a smooth surface of orange-pinkish color;
- solid at first, gradually forms a hollow channel;
- thickened below.
Where and how does the golden yellow milk mushroom grow?
The species is often found from early summer to autumn in the deciduous forests of the temperate zone of Eurasia. Mushrooms create mycorrhiza with oaks, chestnuts, and beeches. The fruiting bodies are arranged singly or in clusters.
Is the mushroom edible or not?
Golden-yellow milkweeds are inedible due to their very bitter juice. There are claims that mushrooms need to be soaked for 5-7 days, and the acridity from the pulp disappears.
Doubles and their differences
The inedible species is very similar to the oak milkweed and the true camelina.
The main differences between golden-yellow milk mushrooms and frequently collected doubles:
- the juice of the camelina is intensely orange, gradually becoming greenish, like the cut pulp;
- the plates of the camelina are orange-red in color and turn green when pressed;
- the liquid that appears on the cut of the oak milk mushroom is white-watery and does not change color in the air;
- the pulp of the poultice is whitish, with a strong odor;
- the skin is brown, dry, with indistinct circles.
The valuable yellow milk mushroom, similar in name, grows in damp areas of spruce-birch forests and is not among the twins.
Conclusion
The golden-yellow milk mushroom can be accidentally taken into a basket. Mushrooms should be sorted carefully. This type is soaked separately.
