Content
- What to look for when collecting mushrooms
- You can eat these mushroom types
- Agaricus campestris
- Forest mushroom
- Sheep mushroom
- Caution: risk of confusion! Recognize toadstools
- Karbol-Egerling or poison mushroom
- Amanita mushrooms
- Tips
The Wiesenchampignon can be found from June
What to look for when collecting mushrooms
Shortly after a heavy downpour, on a fresh summer morning, you should take your family on a mushroom hunt. Between June and October you will not only find delicious mushrooms in forests but also in meadows, pastures and fields. Take a breezy basket (no plastic bag!) And a sharp mushroom or vegetable knife, then you can start searching. But beware: Many toadstools look confusingly similar to the tasty mushroom.
You can eat these mushroom types
From the supermarket you only know two types of mushrooms - white and brown. However, these are not two different species, but only different colors of one and the same variety. But did you know that there are about 50 different types of mushrooms, many of which are edible? We introduce you to the most important.
Agaricus campestris
The meadow mushroom (Agaricus campestris, also called field Egerling) is probably the best known and a valuable edible mushroom. You can find it between June and October on meadows, pastures and fields, whereby the stock of the once widespread mushroom has fallen sharply due to the decline of cow and sheep pastures.
Forest mushroom
The forest mushroom or blood-Egerling (Agaricus silvaticus) is to be found between July and October mainly in coniferous forests, more rarely in deciduous forests. Its appearance is very variable, but mostly light brownish with brown to dark brown fiber scales. The Waldchampignon is very easily confused with the poisonous guinea fowl-Egerling. You can see the poisonous mushroom, however, by its carby-like odor, also discolor interfaces, especially on the stem tuber yellow.
Sheep mushroom
The White Aniseed Egerling or sheep mushroom (Agaricus arvensis) is a valuable edible mushroom. You can find it from spring to autumn in forests, on fertilized meadows and pastures, in parks and on grassy squares. His flesh smells strongly of anise.
Caution: risk of confusion! Recognize toadstools
Unfortunately, mushrooms are very easily confused with various toadstools, some of which can even be deadly poisonous.
Karbol-Egerling or poison mushroom
Agaricus xanthodermus grows in deciduous forests, at forest edges, in clearings, meadows and in parks between June and October. You can distinguish him from his edible relatives by these characteristics:
Amanita mushrooms
There are a number of very poisonous tuber-leaved mushrooms, which at first glance appear to be similar to edible mushrooms. However, they can be recognized by the typical tuber (often underground) as well as the white or bright lamellae.
Tips
There are mushroom consultants in every town who have undergone special training and can tell you exactly if the mushrooms they are eating are edible or not. A worm or snail attack, however, is not a sign of the edibility of a fungus.