Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Mushrooms (1986) - Bitter bollete (Tylopilus felleus) - USSR 1986 - Michel USSR 5606

Greetings friends!

Today we will continue to complete the series of postage stamps "Mushrooms 1986" issued, as you already understood. in the USSR in 1986.

As I said in a previous post, the title of this series does not fully reflect the theme and should be noted that this series is dedicated to poisonous mushrooms. This remark applies to the compilers of the catalogs, and not to this series, since the mention that these mushrooms are poisonous is on every postage stamp, but everything has its "But!".

Wild mushrooms are very insidious and can be very attractive, their appearance just screams: Eat me!

So, this autumn I found a huge plantation of very pretty mushrooms, you can see one of them in the photo.

They grew next to a fungus called Tricholoma portentosum, which is an edible mushroom, and this mushroom is also from the Tricholoma family, but it is a poisonous, Tricholoma sulphureum.

When you collect edible mushrooms, you need to be careful that, by chance, a poisonous mushroom does not get into your crop, which you may not be able to distinguish from an edible one.

And now, we will see, indeed, a clear mistake on a 15 kopeck postage stamp, which depicts the mushroom Bitter bollete (Tylopilus felleus).

The inscription on the postage stamp says that this mushroom is poisonous but it is not.

This mushroom, indeed, cannot be eaten, but only because it is bitter as bile when cooked.

I am living proof that people don't die from this fungus.

Once, by mistake, I collected a large number of these mushrooms and fried them with pleasure.

When I began to eat them, I realized my mistake.

It was a terrible bitterness, but this is the only trouble that gave me grief.

The mushroom is very similar to both the white mushroom and the boletus. When you are picking mushrooms in a shady forest, it is very difficult to understand that there is something strange in this mushroom, and, at home, the thirst for tasting fried mushrooms overshadows the mind, lol.

Yes, when picking mushrooms, you need to turn on your brain and prove to yourself that you have it, every minute.

Let's look at this interesting postage stamp, which contains the mistake of those who approved this series of postage stamps.

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Information about this postage stamp:

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Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: USSR.
Subject: # Mushrooms, # USSR.
Series: Mushrooms (1986).
Name: Bitter bollete (Tylopilus felleus).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 15 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5606.
Episode release date: May 15, 1986.
Perforation: comb 12¼ x 12.
Postage stamp size: 28 x 40 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 3,920,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.11 - $ 0.24.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.03 - $ 0.23.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean postage stamp

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To be continued!

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Links to previous posts about postage stamps in this series:

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Death cap (Amanita phalloides), denomination 4 USSR kopek https://peakd.com/hive-150329/@barski/travel-the-world-of-postage-stamps-mushrooms-1986-death-cap-amanita-phalloides-ussr-1986-michel-ussr-5603

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Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), denomination 10 USSR kopek https://peakd.com/hive-150329/@barski/travel-the-world-of-postage-stamps-mushrooms-1986-fly-agaric-amanita-muscaria-ussr-1986-michel-ussr-5604

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Panther cap (Amanita pantherina), denomination 15 USSR kopek https://peakd.com/hive-150329/@barski/travel-the-world-of-postage-stamps-mushrooms-1986-panther-cap-amanita-pantherina-ussr-1986-michel-ussr-5605

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Author @barski

Ukraine

I edited a photo in the program PhotoDirector, which I also installed on my smartphone.
For my publications, I do not use stock photographs, it is fundamentally important for me to use photographs that I have made with my own hands for publication and I can name them - authorial work.

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