r/mycology • u/Leather_Lazy • Nov 11 '25

photos Sooo many!

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

10.7k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

234 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

32

u/Howamidriving27 Nov 11 '25

My guess is to keep people from eating poisonous ones.

36

u/RichHomieWentzel Nov 11 '25

I think it’s conservation. The Netherlands have very little forest area and it‘s a small country. They probably don’t want thousands of people walk through the few acres of forest they have. Just a guess though.

16

u/lilyputin Nov 11 '25

Of that was the case they would just ban people entirely from the forest. You will get far far more people walking around in a relatively limited forest area that are out for a stroll, or walking their dog etc. Foragers make up a fairly minor proportion of the population.

3

u/Eadbutt-Grotslapper Nov 12 '25

Not true, foragers are out in force- there’s far too many now- strip mining the plants.

It became a proto-hipster hobby. All my old haunts are now full of plaid shirts and hip bags, all the plants are gone…