Nades wrote:
Nope loads grow here, mainly those little spindly cone shaped ones. On the commons they're the most numerous mushroom by far with one every couple of meters, often in clusters and they're picked in October judging by the numbers who pop over the same month of the year. It's not unusual to see 30+ pickers within a space of half a square kilometre.
I'm assuming the wild horses and sheep provide the fertiliser for them and back 3000 years ago, they wouldn't have been anywhere near as frequent. If in a place lacking all these animals, I assume it would be a nightmare to find any. Shrooms have never really appealed to me but watching them being picked is amusing in its own right.
Oh! ok, this makes sense, the original shrooms harvested in grassy steppes of central Asia were spindly cone shaped and a byproduct of livestock fertilizing soils.
