Crisp Helvelle

The Helvelle S belong to Helvellacée S. Those are Champignon S with a smooth or furrowed foot and an irregularly pleated or lobed hat having the shape of a saddle, a small cut or of small ears, carrying the spores.

Description

The crisp helvelle is a mushroom (6-13 cm) formed of a white hat (3-5 cm) particularly breakable having a more or less crumpled or lobed conformation, with a robust foot (2-8×1-2,5 cm) of the same color traversed on all its height of deep and irregular furrows. Its flesh which is thin and elastic quickly becomes coriace. Young person it does not feel large thing but into growing old it starts to release a pleasant odor.

It pushes on the ground, as well in the wood of clear and wet leafy trees (more rarely in the coniferous trees) along the paths, as in grass, the hedges and the slopes of the meadows. It is found end of the be until the end of the Automne.

Use

It is a mushroom which one regarded as edible, after having taken the precaution to cook it well and throw the water of cooking (toxic at the believed state).

Research established that it contained Méthylhydrazine which could cause food poisonings random but serious and which involved a risk Cancérogène. This substance is not destroyed with cooking. One will thus abstain from consuming it, the more so as savor (once bleached) is not with go.

Random links: