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02.08.2022 · Posted in Writing and Speaking

THE MUSHROOMS OF FEBRUARY

February in Italy should be the coldest month of the year.

The days of the blackbird, which correspond to the last Microdosing shrooms days of January, were once known to be the coldest and snowiest time of the year.

In fact, until the late 1970s, it was still very cold in February. On the Alpine peaks the temperature dropped constantly below -30 ° C with peaks up to around -40.

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There was never a shortage of perturbed passages heralding important snowfalls which, thanks to the first timid signs of warm-humid arriving from the nearby Atlantic Ocean , dispensed snow, sometimes even copious, from the Po Valley to the Alpine peaks and, very often also from the hilly areas to the Apennine mountains.

Cold, wind, frost and snow inhibited the birth of any fungal species , except for the only mushrooms that do not fear the cold at all, such as the Elm Mushrooms ( Flammulina velutipes ) , the Chilblain or Oyster Mushrooms ( Pleurotus ostreatus ) and at the end of the month also the Sleeping Mushrooms ( Hygrophorus marzuolus ) which do not fear the cold at all, on the contrary, often unable to look out into the open air, due to the thick layers of snow present on the ground.

From 1981 onwards the winters have changed radically, no longer tenaciously cold and snowy, but cold and dry, then progressively cooler and drier, until the recent 2000s, characterized by cool winters, with alternations of long warm anticyclonic phases, and few cold forays, always in a less snowy or rainy context.

The Russian Continental Anticyclone has progressively retreated towards the Asian hinterland only, the oceanic Anticyclone known as the Azores Anticyclone has changed its appearance, passing from a cool-humid character, to a warm and gradually less humid one, while on Europe the African sub-tropical anticyclone has become more and more popular, its main characters have become more and more tropical, rather than sub-tropical.

In practice, the so-called ‘Greenhouse Effect’ has created a blanket of air in the atmosphere that traps the warm rays of the sun, allowing the masses of hot air to have an undisputed supremacy over the cold ones.

This linked to the Climate and Climate Change is not of secondary importance because mushrooms, in order to thrive, absolutely need welcoming environments, adequate temperatures, humidity and winds but, the climatic crisis in which we find ourselves, does nothing but to magnify the abiotic factors (atmospheric, climatological, geological) which, taken individually or even all together, do nothing but inhibit the prosperity of the vegetation and of the mycelia in the subsoil. (See entry in the encyclopedia → abiotic ).

EARLY HOT, EARLY BIRTHS

THE MUSHROOMS OF FEBRUARY

There are those who rejoice in noting that the winter season has contracted to such an extent that it does not last more than forty or at most fifty days.

For some there is nothing to complain about in noting that, at the end of the season, the energy expenditure for heating during the winter has drastically reduced compared to past years, even if the savings had just offset the exorbitant costs. , which no longer cease to increase incessantly.

Others rejoice in being able to leave the house without the nightmare of ice, snow, cold wind and all the inconveniences that follow.

However, nature does not rejoice at all, finding it unnatural and annoying to chase after new adaptations, also because it does not always manage to do so.

Just as nature has wanted that on our planet there are various climatic bands and that a temperate climate dominates on our continent, in the same way, we should learn to accept that during the cold season it is indeed cold, that wild animals and plants go into hibernation. or in vegetative rest and that the cold can allow the vegetation to carry out its life cycles which, in the absence of cold, could not take place regularly, putting their survival at risk, exposing vegetation and fungi to extinction.

It is a fact that, ever since the Global Warming of the Planet began, the awakening of nature occurs more and more precociously.

Since the end of February, thunderstorms return to the North, the buds that have begun to swell since January, by the beginning of March, already produce early blooms and the emission of tender leaves which, in the event of even a very short cold sweep, freeze and they die.

Fungi also awaken, and this is not always a good thing, since a too early awakening exposes entire fungal colonies to the risk of freezing, wilting and dying.

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