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- When can you collect the tasty meadow mushroom?
- Mushroom time is from June to October
- Careful, poisonous!
- Typical distinguishing features of meadow mushroom
- cap
- slats
- stalk
- meat
- Differentiate toadstools
- Tips
Meadow mushrooms grow from June
When can you collect the tasty meadow mushroom?
In supermarkets, white and brown mushrooms are omnipresent: with about 64,000 tons of mushrooms produced, the mushroom mushroom is one of the most popular mushrooms in Germany. However, this belongs to a different kind, the two-pored Egerling. The meadow mushrooms taste more aromatic and more like "mushroom".
Mushroom time is from June to October
The main collection time for the meadow mushroom is the summer. Especially after a summer rain or even a heavy summer storm, you will find on meadows and lawns. Between June and October, you can always go back to the stalk and search for well-known mushroom meadows. However, like the giant bovist, the meadow mushroom does not tolerate artificially fertilized meadows - therefore you should be successful in searching for cow pastures as well as on organically managed areas.
Careful, poisonous!
But beware: The tasty meadow mushroom can be quickly confused with very similar toadstools such as the tuberous mushroom and the poisonous Karbol-Egerling. In particular, the Karbol-Egerling is often found where meadow mushrooms grow - sometimes even mix the individual groups. Therefore, you should determine the individual fungi by their characteristics exactly.
Typical distinguishing features of meadow mushroom
On these features you will recognize a meadow mushroom:
cap
The hat is young closed and spherical, when mature and hemispherical. Very old copies even spread completely. The hat can be up to ten centimeters in diameter and larger.
slats
The lamellae are young pink. In older mushrooms they turn brown, sometimes even black.
stalk
The stem is about as strong as a finger or thumb. He also has a ring on.
meat
Hat and stalk are always white. The color does not change with age. The smell is pleasantly mild-mushy.
In addition, meadow mushrooms have no tubers on the stem end, which is why you can distinguish them from the poisonous tuberous mushrooms on the basis of this feature. Only the edible anise mushroom, a relative of the meadow mushroom, has a sloping tuber on the stem foot. This turns yellow when touched.
Differentiate toadstools
If the alleged meadow mushroom smells unpleasantly of carbolic acid, ink or "hospital" and the stalk meat starts to turn chrome-yellow when cut, it is the poisonous carbolic mushrooms. Please throw this away immediately! Even the highly poisonous green tuberous mushroom looks very similar to the meadow mushroom. It leads to numerous poisoning cases every year, even if it does not grow on meadows, but only in the forest. However, if there are any trees in the meadow or if the meadow is at the edge of the forest, then the green tuber-leaf mushroom will also venture out. They recognize him by the typically thickened bulbous foot.
Tips
If you want to be on the safe side, mushrooms can also be grown all year round in your own cellar.