Why boletus grows in the tundra, where there are no aspens

 Why boletus grows in the tundra, where there are no aspens. From our young school years, it has been hammered into us tightly - boletus grows under birch trees, boletus - under aspens, boletus - in a pine forest. It's called MYCORRHIZA. That is a symbiosis of a tree and a fungus.

Coexistence of tree and fungus. Mutual benefit.

Trees give food to mushrooms, and mushrooms, like nurses, produce medicinal substances and inject them into the root system of the tree.

This is an axiom. Everything is correct. A healthy forest is a mushroom forest.

And yet.. and yet..

“Why don’t we have OSIN in the tundra - but aspen mushrooms grow, and even with a bucket?” asks a wonderful journalist from Anadyr.

But how to explain that boletus grows in an open field, where the nearest birch is three kilometers away?

Where did this symbiosis go? And the mushroom, how did the little orphan set off to wander without a birch mother?

The symbiosis hasn't gone anywhere. Mushrooms always come into contact with plants. But... they are cats walking by themselves.

This dog can die of longing, having lost its owner. The cats will find another owner. And they will give tenderness and affection with the same intensity.

Here are the mushrooms.

Mycologists were convinced of this by the example of WHITE MUSHROOMS. Which were brought to South Africa on the roots of tiny pines.

The pines withered, did not want to grow, and quietly withered away.

Mushrooms thought, thought - there is nowhere to go. Alien continent - it is necessary to take root. And made friends with .. African acacias and sophoras

The acquaintance grew into a strong friendship. And even the exchange of smells and tastes. Real because friendship.

And this is the most interesting thing - porcini mushrooms suddenly began to smell like APRICOTES and acquired a sweetish caramel taste. Either acacia or sophora.

The acquaintance grew into a strong friendship. And even the exchange of smells and tastes. Real because friendship.

And this is the most interesting thing - porcini mushrooms suddenly began to smell like APRICOTES and acquired a sweetish caramel taste. Either acacia or sophora.

Now the South African company "Edulis" breeds "apricot porcini mushrooms" on an industrial scale in natural conditions and is going to supply porcini mushrooms to Russia.

They are just afraid - will Russian mushrooms with apricot flavor be accepted? Ours smell like birch groves and pine forests .. Yes, and the size of ours is not elephant

This is how it happened with the aspen mushrooms - since there are no aspens, they immediately established friendship with the roots of lichens and reindeer moss and plant elfin. It is necessary to master the space. And mushrooms with boletus pulled themselves up ..

And the chanterelles so generally threw out the trick - on Bering Island. Almost among the rocks they began to grow - having created mycorrhiza with local lingonberries ..