Mushroom picking is an exciting experience, but not all beginner mushroom pickers can distinguish between edible and toxic fruits. Among specimens that raise questions, there is tiger rowing, its detailed description and properties are given later in the text.

Botanical Description

The young tiger rowing has a round hat with the edges pressed to the leg. As the growth grows, the edges straighten and partially wrap, the surface becomes extended, growing up to 12 cm in diameter. Concentric circles are visible on white-gray skin with dark scales.

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Pale green or cream plates wide, rarely located, grown edge to foot. On their surface, you can notice watery drop-shaped discharge. The cylinder-shaped leg grows up to 15 cm tall, and can thicken at the base. The color is white with a touch of ocher, the bottom of the legs is darker.

The flesh does not darken on the cut, it is painted pale gray, according to the description it smells of flour. Nevertheless, a pleasant aroma and appearance hide a poisonous fruit underneath. So far, mycologists have not identified the toxin that causes poisoning.

When and where it grows

Tiger grass appears in early August, bears fruit until the end of October. It grows in coniferous and deciduous forests, at the edges and clearings. Likes moisture and a temperate climate, it is rare in the north. Most often, it can be seen on calcareous soils singly or growing “witch rings”.

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The family of rows includes edible specimens that can be confused with the poisonous fruit described above.

Among them:

• earthy rowing - gray-brown color may be with a reddish tint, the cap is convex with a blanket hanging down to the leg with a diameter of up to 9 cm. The plates are light, grown, with notches along the edge. The odorless flesh, brittle, does not darken. Leg in the form of a spindle or cylinder, up to 9 cm tall, white with a yellow tinge at the base;
• reddish - the top of the fruit body is convex in shape, fleshy and resilient, velvety to the touch. It is painted in pale yellow tones with brown or purple scales, diameter up to 12 cm. Plates with spikes, overgrown, yellow. The leg of adult fruits is hollow, up to 10 cm tall, can bend, white with red scales. The pulp is easily divided into fibers, has a sour smell;
• yellow red - with the surface corresponding to the name of the color, round-convex top, bottom of the mushroom body of a cylindrical shape, the flesh is bitter, therefore, the mushroom is assigned to the 4th category;
• gray - a hat without scales, with uneven edges and rings of a dark gray color, adult fruits on an open surface have a tubercle. The color is pale olive, pale purple or lilac, the skin is cracked, mucus secretes in wet weather. The underside of the fruiting body is thick, fibrous, white-yellow. The pulp with a mealy taste and aroma, pale, brittle;
• black-scaled row - the bell hat, covered with black scales on a red-brown background, straightens as it grows, assuming a flat shape. The edges are turned up, diameter up to 10 cm. Leg thickens to the base, brown, hollow;
• sweetie - in the center of the hat is an almost regular shape, the circle is dark brown, the remaining narrow edge is lighter, the edges are turned up, the shape is flat with a small tubercle in the middle. The leg is dark with a bend.Before cooking, it is advisable to soak the sweetener well, since the pulp is very bitter without preliminary treatment.

Poisoning Actions

Symptoms of row poisoning appear within 1.5–2 hours, and if a large portion is eaten, then after 15 minutes.

• The victim is observed:
• thirst;
• chills;
• nausea;
• vomiting
• diarrhea.

You must immediately call an ambulance. While waiting for doctors, you should rinse your stomach to reduce the amount of toxins absorbed into the blood. To do this, the victim needs to be given warm water with potassium permanganate or table salt to drink, which will cause an emetic reaction.

Important! Repeat the washing procedure until the masses erupted by the stomach become transparent and without lumps of food.

The patient should wrap up, take activated charcoal or another adsorbent agent, preferably put a heating pad in the legs.

Each mushroom family has poisonous representatives, so it is advisable for beginners in a "quiet hunt" to wander through the forest with an experienced mushroom picker or to ignore unfamiliar mushrooms.