Meadow honey agaric is an edible agaric. His body is quite small, weighs about a gram. The diameter of his cap, depending on the age of the fungus, is from two to eight centimeters. Its surface is smooth. As it grows, the shape of the cap changes from hemispherical to flat and outstretched; in its center there is a blunt tubercle. When dried, the mushrooms become cup-shaped. The edges of the cap are very uneven and in some places transparent.
When it rains, the meadow mushroom becomes sticky. It acquires a tan or reddish color with a fairly perceptible zonality. If the weather is clear, the color of the mushroom changes to a
whitish-cream color. Closer to the center of the cap there is a noticeable darkening. The meadow mushroom has rare plates, their width is about five centimeters. At first they are grown. But as they mature, become even more free, intermediate plates appear. In humid weather, meadow
mushrooms change the color of the plates to ocher, while in dry weather they turn whitish-cream. Spores are white or beige in the form of an egg or ellipse. They have a fairly smooth surface. The height of the legs varies from two to ten centimeters and about half a centimeter in thickness. It thickens to the base, may be slightly twisty. The leg of the mushroom is dense, solid.
The old meadow mushroom has a fairly stiff and fibrous leg. Its flesh is whitish or pale yellow in color with a fine structure. The old mushroom has a light, slightly sweet taste, a peculiar smell, similar to the smell of cloves or very bitter almonds.
Honey mushrooms are saprophytic mushrooms. They grow on ordinary soil in rows, circles or arcs. You can collect them, starting in late May and ending in October. It prefers mushrooms to open grassy places such as vegetable gardens, gardens, meadows, roadsides, edges, ditches and ravines.
From the Urals to Kaliningrad, in the North Caucasus, as well as in the Primorsky and Altai territories, meadow honey mushrooms can be collected. Photos with them can be seen in large quantities by anyone who is fond of "silent hunting." If dry mushrooms are moistened with water, they can restore the ability to reproduce spores.
Another representative of mushrooms is very similar to meadow honey agarics - the forest-loving collibia. It is conditionally edible. Collibia is distributed mainly in deciduous, mixed and coniferous forests. Its main differences from the meadow openings are a hollow leg, a rather unpleasant smell and pale plates. However, there is a more dangerous resemblance to a poisonous mushroom - whitish talker. There is a very strong similarity between them, and not only external. They can even grow in the same way as a meadow honey agaric, forming circles.
The differences are in a creamy hat without a tubercle, the smell of flesh and a powdery appearance. Meadow mushroom is suitable for processing. Most often, hats are used for food, because the legs are quite rigid.
Meadow honey mushrooms are very useful. They contain marasmic acid, which helps the body fight many pathogenic bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus.