In autumn, mushroom picking is the flagship activity for lovers of ceps, chanterelles and other chanterelles. Basket in hand, boots on your feet, and knife in your pocket, let’s go for a walk in the forest!
It is a good year for picking mushrooms in the forest of Belvedere, in the Maritime Alps. Seldom will we have seen and picked so many mushrooms and such a size, that some ceps are reminiscent of a robust country bread.
During this time of picking mushrooms, meet a pharmacist who gives advice to children who come to show her their loot. She then explains her role in teaching, encouraging mycology, and preventing accidents.
Meeting in the Lorraine forest with Joseph, a true mushroom-picking enthusiast. Let it rain, let it sell, let it do any weather, it is the mushrooms!" he stresses. Then he lists the different species of trees that generate mushroom growth.
During this period of mushroom picking, he met with the president of the Western Mycological Society, who came back to the preconceived notions of mushroom identification, which, according to him, are the cause of 90% of fatal accidents. It then presents two mushrooms that everything opposes: the amanite of the Caesars ("the best of mushrooms") and the amanite phalloide ("the deadliest of all mushrooms").
Meeting in Meurthe and Moselle, with Professor Steinmetz from the Faculty of Pharmacy, on his passion for mushrooms. I am mainly looking for the extension of mycology,' he stresses. He talks about amateurs, very sharp in this fields and who come to take mycology courses. Then he presents a mushroom with a very complicated name.
Reminder of the prohibited methods for collecting mushrooms, including the use of the rateau. After being verbalized by a police officer, a couple takes the powder in the bush.