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Originally Posted by PeteS  It always surprises me what you can spot while driving. For example, last season was not good for boletes but I always like to search for Boletus edulis. At the end of the year I realised that I had found more while driving to know sites than I had in hours of searching on foot. These were all by the side of roads where I'd never seen them before. Once I was driving to the New Forest (just outside it's boarder) at about 50mph when I spotted one. I have also spotted single Chanterelles at about 40mph and a ring of Calocybe gambosa at about 70mph. Really must be careful not to have an accident  |
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not a good idea to collect or eat these from beside roads Pete !
Fungi are known to select out and absorb, many toxic heavy metals which occur frequently as pollutants, in high concentrations, by roads and are thus not a good idea to eat ! Boletes are amongst the worst for doing this !
And that isn't scaremongering either !
Nick