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- Grow and enjoy tasty stick sponges
- Which is why only experienced mushroom connoisseurs should collect stick sponges
- Non-dangerous alternative: Stockschwämmchen breed yourself
- So you breed the Japanese Stockschwämmchen
- Tips
Stockschwämmchen are ideal for breeding at home
Grow and enjoy tasty stick sponges
Between May and December you will find mostly in deciduous but also in coniferous forests, the parasitic Stockschwämmchen, which is considered a tasty edible mushroom. However, the tufted waking species is easily confused with very similar toadstools, which is why you can breed the sponge in your own garden - without danger to life and limb.
Which is why only experienced mushroom connoisseurs should collect stick sponges
Only seasoned mushroom pickers should go in search of wild, wild stick sponges and have them checked by a mushroom advice center. The fungi are due to the very similar fruiting body easily confused with the deadly venomous venomous Häubling, which differs only by the whitish, untidy stalk and the grooved Hutrand - Stockschwämmchen are barely gerieft. The venom hide contains the same toxins as the equally lethal poisonous tuberous mushrooms. It can even happen that stick sponges and poison bleachers occur on the same tree trunk.
Non-dangerous alternative: Stockschwämmchen breed yourself
The Japanese Stockschwämmchen, also called Goldkäppchen or Toskanapilz, it is also an edible relatives of the native of our Stockschwämmchens. The bright orange mushroom is very popular in Japan and almost as well known as the Shii-Take.With us you get the tasty mushroom in the form of grain brood or dowels, which you can use for self-breeding.
So you breed the Japanese Stockschwämmchen
To grow the Japanese Stockschwämmchens need freshly beaten hardwood, possibly red beech, oak, birch, poplar, but also pasture or healthy (that is, not already affected by other fungi!) Fruit trees. If you have such a stem or stump, inoculate it as follows:
It takes about one to two years until the tree is fully populated and the first stick sponges can be harvested. The patience is rewarded, however, because you over several years time and again gain fresh mushrooms.
Tips
Stick sponges become particularly aromatic when dried. Above all, use the stems as they can not be cooked anyway.