One of the most common edible mushrooms, summer honey agaric growing in ephedra, on stumps, roots, driftwood and grass.Honey mushrooms this subspecies distributed in Russia, Europe and Asia, as well as in North America.They occur wherever there are conditions for their development.Felled coniferous and deciduous trees quickly become infected with spores, honey agaric and summer starts to bear fruit abundantly in mid-June.
Because of its rapid growth and excellent taste mushrooms are very popular among gardeners try to grow mushrooms on the site.With the right approach, you can get a double benefit: to grow delicious fragrant mushroom and get rid of powerful stumps of fruit trees, which will be destroyed within 4-5 years if it settled the mycelium.
Given that summer mushrooms (there is a photo in the article) are growing in huge colonies, it is possible to collect a decent crop, even with a stump.This fungus is considered edible, with excellent aroma and a pleasant taste.Good in marinades, and in the first and second courses.
In contrast to the autumn and winter, summer honey agaric has a thin long leg, its diameter is only 0.5 cm at a height of 5-10 cm. The yellow or brown hat is a bright spot in the center, at the beginning of the growth of the mushroom cap is always rounded, witha small tubercle.As she straightened growth becomes flat, rainy weather can be sticky.In the adult mushroom cap diameter reaches 7-8 cm. A characteristic feature - the presence of a ring on the stem, which is below the surface of the scaly, hairy.The color of the legs is much darker than the cap, at the point of growth dark brown.In overgrown honey agarics it is often bent, becomes stiff and hollow inside.The flesh is very tender, delicate, beige, mushroom has a characteristic odor and a pleasant taste.Leg a rough, fibrous, with long cooking becomes tough.Therefore, when the processing is often left only the cap.
Summer honey agaric is a poisonous combination - galerinu fringed, who also lives on the stumps and contains powerful toxins comparable potency pale toadstool.It is particularly difficult to distinguish the old honey agaric in dry weather, when its color changes, a bright spot in the center disappears.To prevent errors is to collect mushrooms with pine stumps and trees.
According avid mushroom pickers, collecting in the summer rainy weather, mushrooms, season which begins in June, is very difficult.Near the thickets like honey agaric ambush mosquitoes.When gathering should pay attention to the color of the lower layer of the cap mushroom.Often it becomes grayish because of the spore powder, which spreads the upper mushrooms.These mushrooms are edible, too, though, and seems slightly begun to rot.
This fungus is often affected by worms.The notion that the worms do not have wild mushrooms, is a myth.Surface inspection often reveals parasites, but when cooking small white birds float to the surface.For this reason it is recommended to change the water immediately after boiling.Second broth becomes lighter.When dried mushrooms should carefully sort, leaving only healthy young mushrooms.
