9712 Bad Weather by-product!!

Hi
I have noticed a few more cars up our hill recently, esp. those normally only seen in the Autumn for chestnut and mushroom gathering. Came across a couple of guys each with a large wicker basker who were looking a bit furtive -
Buon Giorno, Porcini..... no no Signora. Niente!!

But like all good mushroom hunters they were being less than economical with the truth. Came across them a few minutes later, scrumping from a cherry tree and there in their baskets - loads and loads of different mushrooms, chanterelles, porcini etc etc. etc..

So there is some compensation for this appalling weather.

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General chat about Italy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 16:20

There is a mushroom/funghi that grows well after a lot of damp/wet weather - mainly on cherry. I think it's called Grifola and perhaps that is what they were hunting.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 12:06

Hi Juliancoll

They probably got some of those after the cherries but their baskets were full to the brim with loads of lovely fungi... lucky old things. If only I had the confidence and knowledge to harvest some myself. My nieghbour brings me some and he can be trusted after living around our woods for 70 years +

Have you also got an unseasonally early fungi crop?