As indicated in the previous article, late autumn mushrooms are poplar row, winter and autumn honey agaric.
RYADOVKA POPOLINA (they also say poplar, underfloor) is an exceptionally high-yielding mushroom. Fruiting in October – November. This mushroom is mostly crowded and grows in colonies, although there are also solitary fungi. Fungus 'families' can give half a bucket or more at once. Therefore, whoever went hunting after him can really fill bags, trailers, trunks. The poplar row grows most of all in the foliage of fallen black poplar, as well as under white poplars, aspens, oaks. The hat is mostly brown, although its color ranges from whitish to almost black; there may be mixtures of green, yellow, pink tones. The plates and stem are pale pinkish white. Individual specimens and crowded mushrooms can grow to plate size. In the second half of November of this year, I found a mushroom of about 1 kg in weight, with a cap with a diameter of more than 20 cm and a stem of about 20 cm. Raw mushrooms have a distinct cucumber aroma, bitter pulp, and a tight consistency. They can be boiled, stewed, fried, salted, pickled, only after soaking for 2 days. Mushrooms love sandy soils and even clean sand, so they contain a lot of sand. While soaking, you should change the water several times and wash the mushrooms thoroughly. It is advisable to boil and, thus, remove more sand. Nevertheless, all the same in pickled, salty, more – in fried mushrooms, sand crunches on the teeth to a certain extent, which is an undesirable culinary indicator. But the mushroom itself is of mediocre taste: low aromatic, dense, comparable to oyster mushrooms and mushrooms – both in yield and colonial growth, and in nutritional parameters.
WINTER HAIR (aka winter mushroom, flamulina) is also a colonial mushroom. Its colonies range from small, in 5 – 6 mushrooms, to huge ones – up to 2 – 3 kg. It can grow both on the ground and on stumps and trunks of living and dead trees. The mushrooms themselves are amber in color – from pale honey to dark red, small (the size of the cap reaches a maximum of 5 – 6 cm in diameter), the leg is naked – without a ring and dark at the bottom, the plates are cream. The mushroom is also of the ordinary family. Do not confuse it with the sulfur yellow poisonous false froth! In addition, in addition to the same amber color of the cap, the plates, in contrast to the flamulina, are pale lemon (the color of sulfur, hence the name); that mushroom is very brittle, bitter in taste and specific smell of wormwood. Winter honey mushroom is also a mushroom of mediocre taste; can be used in any form.
In small numbers, AUTUMN HAIRS also grows – a larger, colonial mushroom, dark reddish-brown in color, with a relatively thick stem and a ring on it. It is also considered a mushroom of average qualities.
