Overview

• Recent rain and cooler nights have triggered abundant fruiting of porcini, parasol, bay bolete and other edibles, according to certified advisors.
• Heavy turnout is reported in popular areas including the Black Forest, Ebersberger Forst, Berlin’s Grunewald and Hamburg’s Niendorfer Gehege.
• Poison information centers field hundreds of suspected mushroom-poisoning calls each year, a reminder that misidentification remains a real hazard.
• The green death cap is cited as the cause in about 80% of fatal poisonings, and collectors are told to take only specimens they can identify with certainty and to avoid app-only IDs.
• Local rules generally limit personal harvests to roughly 1–2 kg per person and prohibit picking in protected areas or for resale, with fines reported up to €10,000.