Mycology and mushroom harvesting

Does your country have a culture of picking mushrooms? Do you do it yourself? What's your favorite?

Americans are afraid of wild mushrooms so nobody I know does it. Personally I like to find milk-caps or boletes.

>Does your country have a culture of picking mushrooms? Yes
>Do you do it yourself? Yes
>What's your favorite? Boletus edulis and Cantharellus cibarius

Yes. It's a common hobby, especially among old people. Hence, why mushroom poisoning is a thing here. Personally I don't know much about mushrooms, with the exception of a couple of poisonous ones to avoid. When it comes to eating them I'm a pechurka (Agaricus) pleb.

Yes
Yes
It's called hedgehog mushrrom in english apparently

Yes
no
Kanttarelli.

Yes.
I pick the liberty cap ( Psilocybe semilanceata) ever September - November.

I don't even like mushrooms but I still pick them to give to other people.

Yes.
No
Matsutakes are considered as delicacies here. We have started importing them from Scandinavian countries recently.

disgusting druggy ruining mycology

Japan best trading and whale hunt buddy :)

Yes :D Our nice buddy

Did anyone try these(the mushroom not the cellphone lol)?

i know these are popular in Czechia

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My grandmother once picked some mushrooms for me but my mother threw them in the bin.

Yes
Yes
Pic related are my favourite

Fuck up, you fat shit.

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Yes
Picture related, Pfifferlinge/Chanterelles.

Does your country have a culture of picking mushrooms? Yes
Do you do it yourself? Yes
What's your favorite? Fresh: kanttarelli, dried: black trumpets

No
No

Would like to learn more about mushrooms though, maybe I'll do a course in identification or something.

we inherited our mycophobia from you guys and it sucks

What a fucking cunt.

I've seen adverts in magazines trying to push people to get them eating mushrooms.

Most people think of rubbery nasty button mushrooms when you say 'mushroom' here, and most people don;t like them.

I like them, but I never used to. Like most families I wasn't exposed to them in my childhood so the texture and flavour took a bit to get used to when I got older.

People in my area pick morel mushrooms, puffballs, and "chicken of the woods".

>"chicken of the woods"

That doesn't look like a chicken

Yes
Yes
picrel, in latin it's Macrolepiota procera apparently

never heard of anyone eating those 2bh

morels are tasty

thats a puffball mushroom

also very expensive here, maybe 40 euro a kilo or close to that

these in onion/cream sauce with fresh potatoes or decent rice and some medium rare steak please

>medium rare

>not raw

Fucking pleb

There many edible plants that people don't eat.
If you can find a book on Foraging for your region it would show you all that you can eat.

Same, can't wait for the season to start

they don't even have forests

Literally just as bad as well done

Sure is, right now I've been picking up these bad boys. Gotten maybe a kg for now from two pickings.

Man I've lovely spot in the mountains, 1000s grow there.

where do they grow? I've heard that they grow around pastures

DUDE

Usually around shit. There's a few fields where sheep graze near me and that's where I get mine.

>Does your country have a culture of picking mushrooms? Do you do it yourself?
You bet.
We call them cantarelos here, they are fucking delicious.

>Americans are afraid of wild mushrooms so nobody I know does it.
That's because so many are poisonous. No one wants to do painfully.

It is pretty common , parents take their kids along on the mushroom hunt

I think I saw P. semilanceata in my uni last fall, which makes sense, since it's usually frequented by wild horses and sheep. I could be wrong, though, morphotypes can be really misleading

yes
yes
parasol mushroom

Yes although it is only magic mushrooms. I live in the shroom capital of the world.

We have fuckin TV shows about it

It's very common and i remember the adventures i've had with my friends when i was little picking hribi and ghebe(idk the latin terms), even now when in season we go picking mushroome and grill meat and shrooms then get shitfaced and fuck eachother, no homo though