Royal honey agarics - the common name of flakegolden, mushroom family Strofarivaevye. The latter includes other representatives of the kingdom of nature. It is a honeydew summer, false and a number of mushrooms. Golden scaly grows on the trunks of deciduous plants, preferring willow and alder, less often on birch stumps. However, sometimes it can be found on living and dead coniferous woods and in marshland. About 150 different species of these mushrooms are known to science, and only about three dozen are distributed in the territories of forests of central Russia. In Japan, some varieties of flakes are cultivated by growing on special plantations for further sale.
Description
Royal honey agarics (flake golden), asordinary, settled families, small groups. In appearance, this mushroom is significantly different from other counterparts. His hat reaches a truly royal size, growing to 20 centimeters in diameter. The king's honey agarics, whose photos are presented in the article, look very cute and unusual.
Their golden hats are slightly darkerthe color of the scales (hence the name of the fungus) and resembles spiky balls that stick on a thin (relative to their size) stem, with a diameter of up to 1-2 centimeters, sometimes reaching up to 15 centimeters in length. As the flake scales “become obsolete,” the lid turns pale, acquiring unpleasant dirty shades, and the base, on the contrary, changes from light yellow to brown. Royal mushrooms - mushrooms, photos of which are often used for illustrations, thanks to their unusual appearance.
Fruiting period
The first hats of the young golden scalesappear in deciduous forests in mid-July and delight the mushroom pickers until mid-October. By the way, due to the early appearance of the royal mushrooms are often confused with false ones that grow in the forests around the same time of year. The peak of fruiting flakes falls at the beginning and middle of autumn and lasts until the first frosts.
Use in cooking
Royal Mushrooms relate to conditionally false.When cooking, they must first be boiled for 20 minutes. These mushrooms are used in second courses and salads. Excellent taste flakes perfectly combined with fried potatoes and onions. They are just as good when preparing blanks for the winter. The taste that royal mushrooms collected in coniferous forests have differs from the taste of deciduous mushrooms - they are slightly bitter. Therefore, it is better to use them only when salting and pickling. In addition, the golden flake is excellent for drying and freezing.
Food composition
Royal honey mushrooms are a source of thiamine andRiboflavin, vitamins PP, C and E. In addition, mushrooms contain such trace elements useful for the human body as phosphorus, magnesium, calcium and potassium, sodium and iron. The composition of the golden flaky are 2.2 g of beks, 1.2 g of fat and 0.5 g of carbohydrates. Calorie mushroom - 22 kcal per 100 g of product.
