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comrade1234today at 11:47 AM3 repliesview on HN

A company grows these (and other mushrooms) in a warehouse here in Zurich to supply restaurants and grocery stores, which is probably one of the reasons these mushrooms are now found in the wild.

I "hunt" (in German you use the verb "collect/gather") mushrooms in the forests around Zurich and I haven't seen these yet. They also don't appear in my Pilzfürher app specific to Switzerland. But I have heard they are here. From pictures I've seen of them in the wild I might dismiss them from a distance because I could mix them up with two common yellow mushrooms here - one poisonous.

(I'm going out to search for morels this weekend)


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endgametoday at 12:58 PM

The verb I've most commonly heard for this activity in English is "forage". What's the equivalent German word?

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zikduruqetoday at 1:03 PM

> I'm going out to search for morels this weekend

I don't have any addictions in my life, but one. That's when morel season is in swing, I am in full hunt mode.

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redanddeadtoday at 4:44 PM

Is there a secret to mushroom hunting?

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