Summer mushrooms are very common mushrooms that are tasty both fried and pickled. Of these, they often prepare spicy snacks, and an aromatic pie with honey agarics is the best addition to freshly brewed tea. Unfortunately, the edible representatives of this fungus can be confused with their poisonous twins. How to avoid this, when it is necessary to collect mushrooms and where it is best to look for such mushrooms - in more detail in the article.
Other name
Honey agarics are those mushrooms that can boast with an abundance of synonyms: people call mushrooms (marasmius), garlickies, ryadovok people. 
Summer meadow belongs to the family Strofarievye and is called changeable küneromitsy. Also mushroom got synonyms Vorushka, lime lime.
Did you know? In literal translation from Latin, the genus name Armillaria (Opyonok) means "bracelet". The name of the mushroom was due to its characteristic feature - to stick around the old stumps with a bracelet, a semicircle or rings.
Edibility
This summer fungus is classified as edible, but without heat treatment it is better not to use it - the stump has the ability to absorb toxic substances from the outside, and if some poisonous fungus grows next to it (for example, false stump), the edible stump can absorb some of the harmful substances. from its poisonous kinsman. In this case, by using such a mushroom in its raw form, it is possible to cause irritation of the mucous membrane of various degrees of severity and, as a result, intoxication.
Important! Polluted environment and the emergence of a wide variety of false and poisonous mushrooms caused that WHO today strongly recommends not to eat edible mushrooms without heat treatment (even if these are species that are classified as edible by the edibility classification). Poisonous substances have the ability to penetrate into the food-grade fungus, so in order to protect yourself, always boil, fry, pickle mushrooms - but in no case do not eat them raw.
What does the summer garland look like?
A characteristic feature is a wide dark hat on a thin, often straight leg, as well as a fragrant aroma with a honey note. 
Hat
This fragrant fragrant honeydew has a wide (up to 9 cm) hat of two shades - honey and brown. Moreover, a darker color is present on the edging (on which, by the way, sometimes there are small grooves - this gives a feeling of "torn" edges), and thanks to a light tubercle in the center of the cap, it seems that its edges are soaked. In young specimens, the edges of the cap may be slightly wrapped inside.
The edible species of honey agaric honey are also winter honey agaric, meadow honey agaric.
The "headgear" of the fungus also has the ability to hygrofannost - the absorption of moisture and some increase in size (up to 3 cm). In this case, the surface of the cap becomes sticky, sticky and slightly rough. After the summer rain, you can find very large mushrooms, saturated with moisture, but after complete drying, they will again return to their original size. 
Pulp
The flesh is several shades lighter than the color of the cap - from sandy to brownish-brown, and in the lower part of the mushroom and at the base it is darker in color, and in the upper part and the cap is lighter. It has a thin, watery structure and a very pleasant taste. The flesh smells like honey and fresh wood. 
Records
Summer shade is Agaric order - lamellar mushrooms. Monkey plates are pronounced, frequent, weakly descending on the leg. In young members of the genus, the plates are light-colored, more often yellow, but in adults individuals darken to a rusty or brown shade. 
Leg
The leg of the fungus is always thin (up to 1 cm in diameter), and the length can be from 5 to 9 cm. It has a dense and even rigid structure (inside the leg is hollow), and under the influence of the gravity of the cap can bend. Primary color - dark brown. It has a characteristic "brown" ring - a filmy bezel, under which there appear small spore scales. With age, such a ring practically disappears, but in young specimens it is clearly visible.
Did you know? In the ranking of the 10 most delicious mushrooms in the world, the agaric mushrooms were on the 8th position - after bulky oil. And the head of this list is the famous “king” of mushrooms - boletus (cep).
Where it grows and when you can collect
The name "summer honeydew" speaks for itself: these mushrooms form and grow only in a warm season - from the end of May to the beginning of September. At the same time, by the amount of harvest, this species, in comparison with the autumn and winter honeycomb, is the most prolific. Linden eureas love moisture, so the favorite places of their growth are old rotten stumps, glades near water bodies, decaying wood. 
In this way, they differ, for example, from the autumn representatives of the same genus, who love living trees (which they later destroy). You can meet summer specimens in temperate and warm latitudes, where there are deciduous or coniferous forests - therefore, these mushrooms are distributed almost everywhere. The peak of their fruiting falls at the end of July and August, so the mushroom pickers open the picking season in the last month of summer.
We advise you to read about the useful properties, harvesting and cooking experience: freezing, pickling, caviar, salting, as well as about the cultivation of mushrooms at home.
Twin Mushrooms
The fragrant and fragrant summer shade has, unfortunately, a lot of false twins, who have very similar external data. The most dangerous is fringed gallery - this is deadly poisonous mushroom! It is very difficult to distinguish them - the color, the shape and even the ring on the leg are almost identical. You can distinguish them, basically, in the form of a dispute, and the gallery owners do not have any other distinctive features - therefore, you only need to collect edible honey mushrooms with an experienced mushroom picker. 
Gray foxberry - another poisonous twin summer experience. Most often it grows in deciduous forests, and sometimes parasitic even on roses. 
The main difference between this type and edible is the color of the cap: gray, with a green-olive shimmer. If the fungus you have harvested has a suspicious green shade, immediately dispose of the fungus.
Read also about the difference between edible and false agaric honey, the types of inedible agarics and first aid for poisoning.
Flake scaling It is also a poisonous twin of a linden tree — it can be distinguished by a sticky orange-yellow cap and bright red plates under the cap. 
Fire flake - also inedible twin. She has a distinctive red-brown hat - this is her main distinguishing feature. 
In order not to collect poisonous mushrooms, one must be extremely careful when collecting: carefully examine each plucked specimen, know the distinctive characteristics of this summer fruit field, as well as the most probable places of its growth. If any particular instance seems suspicious to you, it is better not to rip it off.
Important! Summer mushrooms are recommended to be collected in baskets, and not in plastic bags or bags - otherwise, the moisture-saturated mushrooms will turn into an unattractive packed flat.
Video: summer mushrooms - collecting, cooking
Summer garlic is a delicious and fragrant mushroom, from which excellent marinated snacks and fragrant soups are obtained. Despite the fact that in some culinary recipes the caps are used raw, it is still better to boil a meadow a little bit - even a small heat treatment will destroy possible toxic substances, and the intoxication of the body will be prevented.
