B.C. forest ecologist and mycologist Andy MacKinnon said he’s been out picking edible fungi this year with fellow mushroom expert Paul Kroeger on Cortes Island, one of B.C.’s Discovery Islands between Vancouver Island and the mainland
Fly agaric mushrooms stand in a forest of the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany, on a foggy, Oct. 23, 2019.Mushrooms large and small, tasty and toxic, are popping up across British Columbia this year in what experts say is a bumper season for fungi.“Every time you go out on a foray, it’s like the treasure hunt. That’s part of the fun of it. You don’t know what you are going to find,” said MacKinnon, who is a co-author of “Mushrooms of British Columbia,” a handbook published by the Royal B.C.
The evidence of a better year is clear on Vancouver Island, MacKinnon said, where king boletes, also known as porcini mushrooms, are “popping up everywhere.”“So, the mushroom that people like to forage for, that was extraordinarily abundant this year,” said MacKinnon. While mushrooms grow wild year-round, Luther said it’s more common to see them in the fall with rain arriving and trees moving sugar into their roots, giving the fungi an infusion of food.Richmond resident Peter Wang said he recently came across a “striking-looking” mushroom next to his home.
MacKinnon said fly agaric mushrooms are abundant all over Vancouver Island and B.C.’s south coast this fall.Berbee said fly agarics are not deadly, however they are poisonous, and people will suffer from hallucinations, stomach upsets and diarrhea after eating them.
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