MUSHROOMS

The wonderful town of mushrooms

• Cortes mycological city
  

• Types of mushrooms
  

• Conservation
  

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Cortes mycological city

Because Cortes is a mycological city? Cortes is a town for mushrooms, they enjoy learning
about, and seeing, all of them. Also, has a fantastic natural environment, it has many
species of fauna and flora, but above all it highlights the huge variety of different
mushrooms. This occurs thanks to its geographical location and its favorable climate for
them. Many people come to visit Cortes for this reason, and they enjoy a lot knowing and
seeing all of them, also one weekend a year the town is dedicated to mushrooms, they
spend a lot of time in the field and then in each town bar, they make a typical tapa with
mushrooms, and finally they compete among themselves.

types of mushrooms:

puffball: parasol mushroom: bloody milk cap:

This type of mushroom is seen a lot here, it is something rare and inedible. It has medicinal
value and is characterized by the fact that when you step on it it explodes and smells plague,
it stinks!

Pale brown hat , closed when young, which opens over time, reaching a diameter of up to 30 cm. It has flattened and dark scales that radiate from the center, where a dark umbon is located. Sheets free, white and tight. Long stem with a double ring also covered with scales, and which is easily separated from the hat. His hat can measure 40 cm wide and 20 cm foot. It presents a mobile ring and a mamelon .

if it is large it can be used to make a pizza, it can also be eaten with cheese or fried scrambled with egg

It is a very curious mushroom, since it only grows in places surrounded by pine trees, there
are 2 types, one is edible and the other is not, they differ because the called niscalo (false)
when making a small slit in any part of it, a liquid comes out It is white in color, which means
that it cannot eat, on the contrary, the original and edible niscalo, when cut, a red liquid
comes out. This type of mushroom is usually eaten breaded, with egg and breadcrumbs. It is
a delicious and very common food here

Conservation