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This weekend of October 30 and 31, don’t hesitate to put on your raincoats to go picking mushrooms, porcini mushrooms for example. However, you must be very careful to avoid poisoning or worse. If in doubt, it is possible to go to your pharmacist.
In the Moulins-Bonsmoulins forest, in Orne, the champion of mushroom picking is Victoria Gaspard. In just a few minutes, she fills her basket. “I found porcini mushrooms, chanterelles and amethysts. All these varieties are edible “, assures the Normande. “This one, I do not know what it is. When in doubt, I do not remove it “, continues Victoria Gaspard.
And she is right. Because before picking mushrooms, you have to be very careful and careful. Some are extremely poisonous while others are edible, but under certain conditions this is the case with reddened amanita. “This one is edible, but only cooked, very well done”, insists Nicolas Petrescu, president of the L’Aigle mycological club. In case of doubt, seek advice from an association or a pharmacy, because the consumption of a poisonous mushroom can lead to very serious poisoning. “It can go as far as fatal poisoning”, warns Hervé Prunier, pharmacist.