To the committed fungus hunter, mushrooms bought with money will always be worthless or, at least, worth less than those captured in the wild
. It’s an image of two large porcini they found on their morning constitutional behind the house where they live. It triggers feelings of envy, fomo . You work out the feasibility of taking a bus, train or taxi to the place where they live. You desperately want a piece of this action.
Mushroom poisonings have spawned a niche media cottage industry, which, a bit like mushrooming itself, peaks around October in the northern hemisphere, whipping up the fear of exposure to death by rabid plants. In fairness, poisonous shrooms make for good copy. There are in the region of 30 species of mushrooms that grow in Ireland that are considered poisonous, according to the National Poisons Information Centre of Ireland .
Under instructions to bring back everything, not just ones we thought were edible, heads were down in the tree litter with eyes peeled. Mushy business was not that brisk, at least not for this reporter, who perhaps doesn’t have the eyesight to penetrate the fungal camouflage. Conditions seemed perfect though. There were lots of dead trees, plenty of leaf litter, tufts of grass here and there and it was damp, but still all I could find was lichen.
Archie has done a few courses and mushroom hunts including some of O’Dea’s previous outings, as well as with Courtney Tyler of Hips and Haws. Since we met, he has been out hunting parasol mushrooms in a field near where he lives in After lunch the contents of the mushroom baskets were laid out on a large white trestle table and roughly matched in groups for identification by O’Dea, with contributory guesswork from the assembled fungus fanciers.
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