Mushroompicking

[Mikula]

When I planned to start the thread I was searching for English names of my favorite species of mushrooms.
I was suprized for lack of its names in English language!
English had to use the Latin scientific terms (like Boletus) for the mushrooms what grows in British forests!
For me, it is almost the same like to have not in my own language a name for dog
and call it just by the Latin scientific term - Canis.

Mushroompicking is the most frequent hobby in our country.
During the season you can met in Czech forest several individuals or family groups armored by knives and baskets.
Most favorite mushrooms of Czech mushroompickers are:

Boletus (several sub-species)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus
Leccinum ruffum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leccinum_rufum
Leccinum scabrum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leccinum_scabrum
Macrolepiota procera (parasol mushroom)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrolepiota_procera
Suillus luteus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus_luteus
Agaricus campestris (gilled mushroom)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_campestris


Some mushroompickers like also
Lycoperdon perlatum (common puffbal)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoperdon_perlatum
Calvatia gigantea (giant puffball)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvatia_gigantea
Lactarius deliciosus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius_deliciosus
Chanterelle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanterelle

[Newman]

Ofc, it's all my childhood with my grandfather

[Ülev]

I think I picked some few days ago, lol

today, from my forest, lol

[Linebacker]

Yea they grow in big numbers around the woods here in late summer,but their season is past now.

Me and my grandfather pick a lot,some we pan fry and others we jar up fo winter.

[War Chef]

Magic mushrooms that grow on cow shit yea

[Dandelion]

I am not a mushroompicker, but I like to eat mushrooms. Our population density is too high and we lack too much nature for it. Picking mushrooms is bad for our environment. It's not a passtime many people can indulge in like Slavs can. Of course picking psychedelic shrooms is still a harmless pastime, for they grow in abundance anyway, but I neither do that.

[щрбл]

Yep, when I was little with my grand parents when they were still alive. Today, I wouldn't be able to recognize the ones I can eat from those which would made me sick. It's been too long. Though, I keep eating mushrooms 2-3 times per week. Yum, yum.

[Harkonnen]

I am actually an avid mushroom picker yes. I know mushrooms ins and outs

Magic mushrooms that grow on cow shit yea

Magic mushrooms don't actually grow on the shit. At least the most well known, the liberty cap, grows on fields and meadows. If you see a similar mushroom growing on animal dung, it is just an imposter.

[Newman]

A little advice: pick those ones, you're gonna thank me afterwards

[Harkonnen]

Does anyone go after chaga mushrooms growing on birch trees. You can make tea from those fellars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inonotus_obliquus