Rex Trulove
This is a well-known mushroom because it is the one that is sold at the store as button mushrooms, white mushrooms, crimini mushrooms, portabello mushrooms, brown mushrooms, or Italian mushrooms. Normally, they are only called meadow mushrooms when they are found growing wild. However, all commercial stocks of these mushrooms originated in the wild.
Sometimes these mushrooms get quite large. We found one many years ago that weighed just over 5 pounds. As the name implies, they usually grow wild in grassy meadows. This one isn’t hard to grow, which is why it is the most commonly grown, sold, and eaten mushroom in the world.
These are a few of the more commonly collected and eaten mushrooms that I get when I’m out in the woods. It isn’t all of the mushrooms I eat, just the most common.
