Thanks to the comrade /u/nohaybanda , who told me I should go out anyway even if i did not find anything. Was fun and relaxing. Met some nice old ladies who were much better at foraging than I am.
I am going to put the parasol in a panade and fry them in fat.
It's a shame they can't be produced industrially, or at least someone sold pickled parasols all year.
Yeah, at least they seem impossible to eradicate and easy to find.
Who would want to eradicate them anyways? Yet I remember them not sprouting in fields recently plowed (like in the last years or so).
Also, if you are close to a farm where they do forage silos, (especially the ones with no fixed place for it and not-baged), search for mushrooms where a silo was in recent years, they grow INSANELY BIG there.
I was thinking about over-use. A few species where I live are endangered because they were almost collected to extinction. Some mushrooms are so rare nowadays that you only find them once every decade.
Thanks for the tip with the silos.
Hmm, I would think it's not because of over-harvest (since most mushrooms have enormous myceliums that expand asexually), but because mushrooms have very specific fruiting conditions. Like, the parasol fungus are rocking all year living in the earth, but only sprout when humid/rainy and cold-without-freeze for a few days. So I blame climate change :agony-deep:
I’ve never seen parasols, I’d love to try them. It’s been a few years since I’ve had any luck foraging in California - the lack of rain and spike in interest means whatever small blooms that happen are immediately picked over :sadness:
Do you have a good ID book or something? I've seen so many mushrooms this year but I don't wanna die
I only know german ones, but you could ask on the mycology community on :reddit-logo: they seem to be more US-american. Things to look out for is that different continents have different mushrooms, and that modern books should be more auccurate.
I had a really good time, finding mushrooms was just a great surprise to a nice hike.
Absolutely. Switching off and going for a hike is such a mental health booster. I honestly don't think I would have done nearly as well during the pandemic if not for the plentiful trails near here.
