Aspen mushrooms - a type of edible mushrooms with a thick leg and a dense cap. These representatives of wildlife grow in the forests of Eurasia and North America. Due to the fact that none of the species of this fungus is poisonous, few people distinguish between them. Let's see what types of aspen species are and what their characteristics are.
Red
A red cap boar has a big hat (up to 20 cm). The cap has a spherical-convex shape and easily separated from the leg. Smooth skin is not removed from this mushroom, as with champignons. In wet weather, the skin can become a bit slippery, but more often it can be found dry.
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Among the colors of the cap of the red mushroom happens such a variety:
- brown-red;
- red-yellowish;
- red-brown;
- red-orangish.
Its color is directly dependent on the environment in which this forest inhabitant grows. For example, if a mushroom grows next to the poplars, the color of its cap is more gray than red. If it grows in a pure aspen forest, its color will be dark red. Representatives from mixed forests usually have a yellow-red or orange color. You can meet the red species in the forest from June to October.
Did you know? Aspen mushrooms have a high content of essential amino acids, which is why the broth of them is equated in value to meat.
The leg of the fungus usually has a size of 15 × 2.5 cm. It is dense, most often expands downwards, sometimes goes far under the ground. It has a white-grayish color, sometimes its base may be greenish. 
The flesh has a high density, fleshiness and elasticity, but during the gradual aging becomes softer. His incision is white in color, and after cutting the makot quickly turns blue. At the bottom of the leg may also be slightly bluish. The peculiarity of the red mushroom is considered excellent taste and pleasant aroma.
For permanent residence red aspen pickers choose deciduous and mixed forests. Live preferably under young trees.
White
As can be seen in the photo, the white species of aspen asines, like red, has a rather large cap (up to 20 cm) of a hemispherical shape. In the description of this fungus, the white color of the cap is indicated first, although sometimes a pinkish, brown or blue-greenish tint may occur. His skin is always dry and naked. 
The hat is held on a high leg, also white. As it ages, the fibrous scales on it may turn gray or brown. The flesh is white in color, strong, when cut first turns blue, then turns black, and on the leg turns mauve.
You can meet white boletus in a coniferous forest, where there is a lot of moisture. In aspen forests comes across in arid weather. It usually grows from June to September. 
Important! White aspen mushrooms are listed in the Red Book of Russia as a rare species. The fungus is banned for collection by the population in the Leningrad region.
Yellow brown
The yellow-brown variety of an asparagus looks exactly like the mushrooms in the illustrations in the children's books - the leg is light and the hat is large, bright in color. A hemispherical cap can grow up to 20 cm. It has a dry, slightly to the touch skin that is woolly to the touch. The skin color is yellow-brown or orange-yellow. His flesh is dense, white in color, on the cut becomes pink, then turns blue, and later approaches black. 
The leg, when cut, acquires a blue-green color. Its height reaches 20 cm, and its thickness is 5 cm. The leg often expands downwards. Its surface is covered with small thick grainy scales of brown and later black color.
Mushroom inhabits birch, birch-aspen, pine, spruce-birch forests. You can find it under the leaves of fern. In Russia, more common under the birch trees. Like all aspen mushrooms, yellow-brown mushrooms are autumn. But sometimes they can be found from the middle of summer. 
Did you know? Aspen is considered the safest fungus, as it does not have a poisonous twin.
Painted
This species of aspen mushrooms differs in that its stem is whitish-pink near the top, and at the base has an ocher-yellow color. The foot has a cylindrical shape, grows up to 10 cm in height and up to 2 cm in width. Its surface is scaly, smooth. 
The hat of this species is pinkish, sometimes with a lilac and olive shade. It can be flattened or convex, reaching 10 cm in diameter. The surface of the skin is dry and smooth.
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The fungus is of North American and Asian origin. Occurs under birches or oaks. In Russia, it grows only on the territory of the Far East and Eastern Siberia. 
Pine
Pine orange-cap boletus is often called a redhead, like other red-cap boletus. Pine mushroom is distinguished by its noticeable dark crimson cap. It can grow up to 15 cm in diameter, and sometimes larger. His skin is dry and velvety. The flesh is white, dense and does not smell. 
In the cut, the flesh quickly changes from white to blue, then to black. A characteristic feature of this fungus is that it can change color from a single human touch, and not just from the incision.
Did you know? After viral diseases, broth from aspen mushrooms restores immunity well. It has a lot of vitamins and microelements that the body needs after an illness.
Leg Krasnogolovika long (up to 15 cm) and thick (up to 5 cm). The color of the base is greenish, the base usually goes deep into the ground. On the stalk you can find longitudinal fibrous scales brown. 
It lives in coniferous and mixed forest. Mycorrhiza forms exclusively with pine, in extreme cases - with spruce. Feels good in the moss, so often found in company with him.
Oak
In youth, the oak boletus has a spherical cap stretched over a leg. As it grows old, the cap opens and takes on a different shape - a cushion. 
The diameter of the cap at the oak species is the same as that of the others - from 5 to 15 cm. The color of this boletus is brick-red. In dry weather, the peel on the cap may crack, and the rest of the time it is velvety. The mushroom has a white-gray dense flesh. When cut, its color changes - first it becomes blue-lilac, and then black.
Leg has a length of 15 cm, width up to 5 cm, slightly thickened at the bottom. On a leg fluffy brown scales are looked through.
Important! The fact that the oak boletus perepaspel, his hat will say - it becomes flat. These mushrooms can not be consumed - the protein that they contain is not digested by the body.
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Black Scale
The hat of this typical representative of an aspen species may have such colors:
- Dark red;
- red-orange;
- brick red.
The leg has a cylindrical shape, in an adult fungus - up to 18 cm in height and up to 5 cm in thickness. The leg of a young mushroom is covered with white scales, which then change color to rusty-brown or chestnut-brown.It has a white, dense and fleshy flesh. On the cut, it changes color to gray-purple, turning into brown-red and at the end - to black. Black-scale aspen birds grow where there are aspens. They have a pleasant taste and do not have a clear smell.
Spruce
Spruce orange-cap boletus, or boletus, grows in spruce and pine forests. Loves to live next to the moss, berries. The season of its growth is from June to September. Hat of a boletus of reddish color. The peel from the cap often hangs a little from the edges of the cap and bends under the sporiferous layer. The size of the fungus is standard for aspen mushrooms: a hat is from 5 to 15 cm, a leg is up to 15 cm in height and up to 5 cm in width. 
Important! Before cooking food from these mushrooms, you must make sure that it is an aspen. If there is no clear confidence in the attitude of a certain fungus to this species, you need to throw it away.
Different types of aspen mushroom mushrooms differ from each other mainly in the color of the cap and leg, as well as in the habitat. The most important thing is that wherever they are found and whatever color they are, they can be eaten and cooked.
