Neighborhoods of St. Petersburg, the former Leningrad, and indeed the whole region - the region, for mushroom pickers are fertile. Here you can find a variety of both high-grade varieties, and those that are usually collected in low-yielding years, when they are happy with anyone, even the most unpresentable "Earring on one leg".
Forest excursion
Before you tell us about which edible mushrooms of the Leningrad Region, and which ones are best avoided, a couple of words should be said about the mushroom areas in general. As a rule, it is possible to attack such "treasures" on forest edges, in groves where oaks and birches grow, in pine forests and pine forests. In this case, plots of either placental or semi-darkened hills, as well as former mowers, hidden paths, are distinguished by rich placers. Soils of the mushrooms of the Leningrad Region, edible especially, are preferred with abundant humus, humid. And, naturally, most species of these plants live near certain tree species.
Mushroom boletus
So, let's start in order. The mushroom kingdom is diverse. Traveling on it is exciting and useful. To all fungi the fungus is white, it is also a boletus. The handsome grows only in the forests of age, large, solid. Basically, under firs, oaks, pines. Its neighbors - small ferns, heather, cowberry clearings and anthills. It should be noted that these mushrooms of the Leningrad Region (edible, very tasty) are not at all the same in appearance. Classical boletus are found under the pines. They have a thick leg, a dark, "tanned" hat and white dense flesh. Their cousins from the spruce forest - with a high and thin leg, a small diameter in diameter, reddish-brown. And inhabitants of shady places and at all to learn difficultly: color of their "headdress" usually white. But you can please those who went to collect the mushrooms of the Leningrad region. Edible these handsome men, as a rule, do not grow alone. Where there was one - the second hides nearby, and there's the third, fourth ... So, you see, and you collect a whole bucket!
Underarms
Birches are native Russian trees, they grow a lot along roads, in parks, behind village outskirts, in groves and copses. And there, where they grow, there are such delicious edible mushrooms of the Leningrad region as podberyozoviki. Their hats are common, if the plants appear at the beginning of the summer season, and velvet if they come out into the light of the end of August.
And other inhabitants of the forest
Podisinoviki, freckles, oak-trees, mushrooms, oleaginas - all this splendor occurs in abundant years in productive years. In the way the edible mushrooms of the Leningrad Region look, the photos will help you figure it out. Even the same species has several varieties of coloring, size, shape of the cap and stem, depending on the conditions of growth, the proximity of other plants, the season of the year, etc. Moss, dewdrops, russules, mushrooms, green mushrooms, morels, chanterelles, Valui - this is far from a complete list of everything that can be collected in these parts almost all the year round, from early spring to late autumn, until the rainy dampness is replaced by frost. It is simply important to know which mushrooms in which forests grow and at what time of the year they go out into the world.
That's all the wisdom! Good luck mushroom hunting!