Although the autumn mushroom season began in Spain a few weeks ago, it is in this last stretch of October, before the frosts enter, when it is usually concentrated the bulk of the campaign.
Due to the late summer rains, the season was promising and, in fact, in many areas it started earlier. But the last mycological reports confirm that the absence of precipitation and the high temperatures are conditioning and putting at risk the fruiting of mushrooms at the key moment of the campaign, when more species appear.
“This situation is truncating all the good expectations that were presented at the beginning of autumn, back in the month of September,” says the last mycological part of Castilla y León. “There are many experts consulted who already consider the season lost for a large number of species due to the proximity of the frost season severe ”.
Much chanterelle, little boletus
Specifically, the fruiting of chanterelles is being abundant, more at high levels than low, but it is very difficult to see other species typical of autumn, such as the coveted boletus, which in the last week have only appeared in a very punctual and scattered way.
At the moment, all the mushroom boundaries of Castilla y León are in what is considered a “Low estimated production.” In the Pyrenees and the pre-Pyrenees, the other major mushroom harvesting areas in Spain, it has not rained in recent days either; and there, at the highest levels, the season ends at the end of October or early November.
“To nothing that something fell [de lluvia], everything would recover very well, because there are mushrooms even with the ground quite dry “, explains in El Diario del Alto Aragón, the mycologist Antonio Palazon.
According to the weather predictions, the rains will come next weekend, perhaps just in time to save mushroom season in the next few weeks, past the bridge. We will see.
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