Edible mushroom - meadow

Meadow gum is an edible plate mushroom. His body is rather small, weighs about a gram. The diameter of his cap, depending on the age of the fungus - from two to eight centimeters. Its surface is smooth. As the growth grows, the shape of the cap changes from a hemispherical to a flat one and spreads out, in the center of it there is a blunt tubercle. When dried, the mushrooms become cup-shaped. The edges of the cap are very uneven and sometimes transparent.

When it rains, the meadow parrot becomes sticky. It acquires a yellowish-brown or reddish color with a fairly perceptible zoning. If the weather is clear, the color of the fungus changes to a whitish-cream color. Closer to the center of the cap there is a noticeable darkening. The meadow cuttings have rare plates, their width is about five centimeters. In the beginning they are grown-up. But as they mature, they become even more free, intermediate plates appear. In wet weather, mushrooms meadow meadows change the color of the plates to ocher, while in dry weather they are whitish-cream. Spores of white or beige color, in the form of an egg or ellipse. They have a fairly smooth surface. The height of the leg varies from two to ten centimeters and about half a centimeter in thickness. It thickens to the ground, it can be slightly sinuous. The mushroom's foot is dense, solid.

The old meadow horn has a fairly stiff and fibrous stalk. Its flesh is whitish or pale yellow with a fine structure. The old mushroom has a light, slightly sweetish taste, a peculiar smell, similar to the smell of a carnation or a very bitter almond.

Honey mushrooms are saprophytic mushrooms. They grow on ordinary soil in rows, circles or arcs. They can be collected from the end of May to the end of October. Prefers open grassy places, such as vegetable gardens, gardens, meadows, roadsides, fringes, ditches and ravines.

From the Urals to Kaliningrad, in the North Caucasus, as well as in the Primorsky and Altai Krays, you can collect meadow agarics. Photos with them can be seen in large numbers from anyone who is keen on "quiet hunting." If dry mushrooms soak with water, they can restore the ability to reproduce the spores.

On the meadow, another representative of the fungi is very similar, the colibia is leaved. It is conditionally edible. Colibia is distributed mainly in forests of deciduous, mixed and coniferous type. Its main difference from meadow is a hollow leg, a rather unpleasant smell and pale blades. However, there is a more dangerous resemblance to a poisonous fungus - a whitish talker. Between them there is a very strong similarity, and not only the external. They can even grow just like a meadow hood, forming circles.

Differences are in a cream bonnet without a tubercle, a smell of pulp and a mealy appearance. Meadow puff is suitable for processing. Most often, hats are used for food, because the legs are quite stiff.

Meadow mushrooms are very useful. They contain marasmic acid, which helps the body fight many pathogens, for example, such as Staphylococcus aureus.