Purpose of use mushrooms

• Fungi play an important role in the production and decomposition of organic matter (symbiosis, pathogen saprophyte).
• The use of mushrooms for human consumption
• Except for human consumption, mushrooms are used to feed farm animals, rabbits, as well as for feeding crustaceans and fish (carp) in freshwater ponds
• Because the use of mushroom medicinal properties (pharmacological-medicinal effect)
• Aesthetic function in park forests
• Indicators are contamination and radiation exposure

Accessories for collecting mushrooms

• Wicker basket, wooden stick
• Mushroom knife (spatula)
• Suitable clothing and shoes, first aid
• Less experienced collectors should have a compass (a map, GPS), a book to identify species, mosquito spray, water…

As a tool for picking mushrooms can be used mushroom knife, which can only be with a blade, or recommend such to have a brush with the bottom side as well as the built-in ruler. The brush used to clean the dirt on the hat. Also, the entire cleaning should be done on the spot in the to pick when collecting.

In some countries it is forbidden to collect mushrooms below a certain size, as well as the collection over the allowable amounts.

Code mushroom picking

• Not recommended simultaneously collection of different species of fungi, and mixing them while of delivering
• No need to choose the species for which we are not fully sure that they are not poisonous
• It should collect only healthy mushrooms
• Do not collect very young mushrooms (buttons)
• Slicing or tear-off handles mushrooms
• The residue (stalk) mushrooms should be covered with soil or litter and stamp
• The collected fungi should be immediately cleaned of soil, leaves and other impurities
• Since mushrooms are subject to deterioration, we need to collect them in buckets rarely knitted, as if kept in plastic bags quickly inflammation
• Wormy specimens are discarded
• Mushrooms are collected early in the morning, and during the rain should not collect mushrooms
• The largest number of mushrooms before use in the diet should be heat-treated, particularly conditionally edible, which if not boil, can be toxic
• When collecting do not touch and do not damage the fruitful bodies of poisonous mushrooms
• If the mushrooms in the group, should be left 1/3, honey fungus – Armillaria mellea pick all
• Young mushrooms of the genus Amanitane not collected, be sure to cut puffball