If you like to grow mushrooms yourself, you can often find growing kits for “brown caps” in stores. This popular name hides various mushrooms that you can also collect in the wild.
When is the best time to find browncaps?
The best time to find browncaps varies depending on the species: the reddish-brown giant boletus can be found in fields and gardens from August to October, while the chestnut boletus can be found in needle and garden areas between June and November mixed forests.
Various mushrooms are hidden behind “Brown Cap”
Behind the cultivated mushroom “Brown Cap” is actually the reddish-brown giant trout (Stropharia rugosoannulata), which occurs between August and October primarily in fields, fields (especially in corn fields) and in gardens. In addition, the chestnut boletus (Xerocomus badius) is often popularly referred to as the “brown cap”. However, unlike the reddish-brown giant mushroom, this edible mushroom cannot be cultivated in the home garden.
When you find the chestnut boletus
This is a typical tubular mushroom that you often find in coniferous and mixed forests between June and November. The chestnut boletus is a typical mycorrhizal fungus of spruce, i.e. H. it always lives in symbiosis with spruce trees.
Tip
You can distinguish the chestnut boletus from other boletes by applying light pressure to the tubes. Then the pale to green-yellow tubes turn dark blue.
