Mushroom pickers had to put up with empty baskets during the dry summer. But the rainy autumn brought a turn to this year's mushroom season.
Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - A lot of rain in September made for a proper mushroom season in Baden-Württemberg. "Then the mushrooms literally sprouted out of the ground," said the mushroom expert from the national association of the Nabu Nature Conservation Union, Karl-Heinz Johe. The summer, on the other hand, was rather bleak for mushroom pickers.
The typical summer mushrooms such as chanterelles or summer porcini mushrooms were as good as absent in the southwest due to the weather. Going into the forest was only worthwhile in individual regions such as the southern Black Forest. In the north of Baden-Württemberg, on the other hand, hardly a drop of rain fell and therefore hardly a mushroom grew.
Later in the year there were "abundance" of porcini, red caps, parasol mushrooms and boletus species, Johe said. The entire mushroom year was therefore still average.
According to the Nabu regional association, there are more than 3,000 different large mushrooms in Baden-Württemberg. Around 150 of these are edible mushrooms and around 150 are poisonous. About ten species are deadly.
According to Nabu, around 450 species of mushrooms in Baden-Württemberg are on the red list of endangered large mushrooms. The conservationists warn of a sharp decline in species. The main causes are environmental problems such as soil compaction and acidification as well as high nitrogen pollution.
