Member of the Loupean Mycological Society since 1970 and president of the association since 1980, Jean-Claude Proust is what is called a mycophile.
“That is to say that when I go to the forest, it is to observe the varieties that I meet and exchange my knowledge with my colleagues,” he summarizes.
“Which does not prevent me, I admit, from picking edible mushrooms when I find them, but reasonably”. This is what differentiates him from mycophagi, that is to say from people who only pick mushrooms to eat them ”.
Most edible mushrooms, Jean-Claude Proust finds less and less during his outings, whether individual or collective. The fault of pickers of all kinds, who are more numerous each year, as soon as autumn comes to the fore. “I’m talking about amateur pickers, but not only. More and more often, we meet, especially at the beginning of the season, people who literally rake the forests, from morning to night, to resell their pickings illegally ”.
Three original (and edible) mushrooms that can be found in Eure-et-Loir
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“When it comes to mushrooms, nature decides”
Jean-Claude Proust is sounding the alarm. According to him, pickings have become too numerous and too early. “By picking mushrooms that are too young and in too large a quantity, you prevent the spores from falling to the ground, and therefore from creating the mycelium.
which will give new mushrooms the following year. They don’t have time to reproduce ”.
“The other problem is that we only know how to artificially cultivate around 30 varieties of wild mushrooms. And again, it’s complicated. If we do not conserve resources, whole varieties of mushrooms will disappear from nature ”. Jean-Claude Proust
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(President of the Loupean Mycological Society)
According to this specialist, when it comes to mushrooms, “it is nature that decides. We know that mushrooms grow mainly in the fall because there is a fairly large supply of humidity. We also know that the fungus is the “fruit” of the mycelium. But how it appears and why, I won’t be able to tell you. I just know how to distinguish the mycelium when it grows, that it forms a more or less white spot. In general, you have to wait eight days for a fungus to appear on it ”.
Everything you need to know if you are going to pick mushrooms this weekend in Eure-et-Loir
“We can no longer find small roses and other meadow mushrooms,” continues Jean-Claude Proust. “Already, because there are no more meadows. And then because the chemical treatments are too important ”. On this point, Jean-Claude Proust invites pickers to be careful not to get intoxicated: “Mushrooms, which are made up of 80% water, are real pollution vacuum cleaners”.
– Vegetative part of fungi, formed of branched underground filaments, generally white, and on which the carpophores, or fungi in the usual sense of the word, will grow.
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