These mushrooms are like twins, but you cannot put both in one basket: a fine of up to 1000 euros is threatened

One such pair of mushrooms – the common funnel and the gray chanterelle. At first glance, they look almost identical – grayish-brown, funnel-shaped. However, the difference is very important: the gray chanterelle is critically endangered in Lithuania, listed in the Red Book, so it cannot be collected.

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How to distinguish these two mushrooms in the forest and what detail must be paid attention to before putting the find in the basket, the portal 15min is told by Jonas Kasparavičius, a researcher at the Mycology Laboratory of the Botany Institute of the Nature Research Centre, mycologist.

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– How can mushroom pickers distinguish the common funnel from the gray chanterelle? What are the most distinctive features?

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