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Grzybiarz is a mobile app for mushroom foragers. Its on-device AI helps you spot fruiting bodies in the leaf litter and suggests a species from a photo, and the app keeps a private map of your finds. Everything runs on your phone and works fully offline in the forest without signal.

Meadow MushroomAgaricus campestris

edible

Meadow MushroomAgaricus campestris

Photo: (c) Thomas Mesaglio, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Habitat

meadows, pastures

parks, treelines

Season

from June to October

Agaricaceae

4–12 cm

Season

EndingPast the peak. The season usually lasts until late October.

Today · 22–28 Oct74% of peak

how often reportedpeak

Season

Jun–Oct

Peak

Aug–Oct

Reports

769Poland and neighbours

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Death Cap grows at the same time

Both species grow together for about 14 wk a year. Most strongly from mid-August to late September.

Curve from 769 observations (GBIF: Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Germany), smoothed week by week. It shows when foragers most often report the species, not how much of it grows.

Key features

Cap white to cream, smooth or slightly fibrillose, hemispherical, becoming flattened. Gills pink at first, then chocolate brown; stem with a narrow, disappearing ring; flesh white, slightly pinkish when cut, smell mushroomy with a hint of anise.

Similar (be careful)Confusions documented in our database

DeathcapAmanita phalloides

deadly

The Meadow Mushroom has pink gills (young) or chocolate gills (mature) and no volva; the Deathcap has gills that are always white and a volva at the base. Always check the gill color and the base of the stem.

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