Tips from the expert

Why looking for mushrooms makes you happy

Edible, inedible or poisonous: you should always take a good identification book with you into the forest.

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You can certainly list ten animal or plant species. But can you do the same with mushrooms? That's probably more difficult. Especially if you want them to be edible. We serve you compact mushroom knowledge and collecting tips from an expert on these fascinating creatures.

The colorful leaves before your eyes, the smell of earth and mushrooms in your nose, the rustling of leaves in your ears: Whereas in the past it was mainly senior citizens who spent their Sundays roaming the woods with a basket and a mushroom book, today young, urban people are also pondering autumn trumpets, crested smelts, parasols and flake-stemmed witch's barnacles in the thicket. Mushrooms are on everyone's lips!