I haven't gone mushroom picking for a hundred years, but I remember that in many regions it is a rather dreary task. Yes, somewhere in the Vladimir region they go exclusively for porcini mushrooms or chanterelles. And in our region they mainly walk on boletus. Well, what are you picking up small slippery butter, and the big ones are wormy anyway. Then you will be tortured to clean a bunch.
I wish I had a mushroom like that to pick a couple, no worms to rot for you, cut it into pieces and here's a whole frying pan for you!
Yes, this dream mushroom!
Giant Langermannia is difficult to confuse with other mushrooms, or more precisely, it is impossible. Its spherical fruit body resembles a huge white ball, the diameter of which can reach 50 centimeters.
Most often, this mushroom can be found in a single specimen or in small groups. They grow in fields, meadows, the outskirts of deciduous or mixed forests, gardens and parks. With regard to distribution, the mushroom grows in vast territories of Western Europe, the European part of Russia, the Far East (Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories) and Siberia (Krasnoyarsk Territory).
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The golovach has a spherical or slightly elongated fruit body with a diameter of 10 to 50 centimeters. The average weight of such a mushroom is 1-4 kilograms. But there are instances up to 25 kilograms! The cap and leg are missing.
Outside, the mushroom is covered with a thin, sensitive skin. The color is white, but as it matures, it begins to turn yellow and green. Old mushrooms crack and expose their inner contents - gleb (spores). In a young mushroom, it is white and resembles cottage cheese or marshmallow in consistency. As it matures, the gleb also darkens and finally becomes olive brown.
Fruiting bodies are formed in August-October, and in the south of Russia - until November.
This mushroom is edible, but it should be eaten at a young age, while the pulp is white.
Giant bighead contains the antibiotic calvacin, from which a drug is made that suppresses the cure of malignant tumors and sarcoma. The spores of a mature fungus have hemostatic properties.
An 84-year-old Ontarian mushroom picker became a hit on social media after finding a giant mushroom raincoat in the forest. As a rule, these mushrooms are no larger than common champignons sold in all supermarkets.
Don Smith was walking with his daughter's dog in North Dorchester, near Woodstock, when he noticed something large and white in the bushes. He came closer and saw that it was a mushroom.
“Never before in my life have I seen such huge raincoats,” Don Smis said in an interview with CBC Windsor.
Don cut it neatly and brought it home. The mushroom weighed seven kilograms. It reached half a meter in diameter.
The mushroom picker's daughter posted a photo of this find on her Facebook page. In one evening, people shared this picture 2,600 times.
This is not the first time such giant mushrooms have been found in southwestern Ontario. In 2011, the London Free Press reported on an eight-color raincoat 1.5 meters high.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the 1.7m tall raincoat was found in the UK in 2010.
Why did you eat such a mushroom? Is it really possible to feed the whole family with one mushroom?