mushrooms i have collected
i have been collecting mushrooms from various forests ever since i was a little kid. i love going mushroom hunting with different people, because everyone knows different mushrooms that you can cook and eat. here is a collection of mushrooms i collect. i also collect berries; mostly blueberries, lingonberries and cloudberries.
chanterelle / kanttarelli
first encounter:childhood
boletes / tatit
first encounter: 20.09.2025
black trumpet / mustatorvisieni
first encounter: 2020
russulas / haperot
first encounter: 20.09.2025
hedgehog mushrooms / orakkaat
first encounter: 1.8.2026
funnel chantarelle suppilovahvero
first encounter: childhood
while searching for pictures of this mushroom, i came across this interesting article:
How funnel chanterelle (Craterellus tubaeformis) became an urban forager favorite in Scandinavia
a quote from it: 'Mushroom gathering in Sweden and Norway is a modern activity; in Finland and Estonia, it is traditional. Using folk-life records and historical sources, the ethnologist Brita Egardt showed that the population in preindustrial Sweden harbored a deep distrust of mushrooms as food.'