Start of Rõuge mushroom week in photos
Photos and survey Urmas Tartes
Translation: Liis
So stately orange birch boletes (Leccinum versipelle) are only rarely seen, mostly they go into the mushroom friends’ pans
This year the Rõuge mushroom week is causing problems at once. You arrive with your macro lens habitually blown clean and it turns out that the forests are so full of mushrooms that a wide-angle is rather more suitable for shooting. The forest floors teem with different Cortinarius mushrooms, Agarics, milk-caps (Lactarius) and boletes. It is quite sufficient to lie down after the first ten metres and there is enough to photograph (and pick for those so minded) to last at least an hour. The exciting finds bring smiles to the faces even of experienced mushroom specialists. The exhibition promises to become interesting.
The mushroom excursions take place from Monday until Thursday, beginning at 10:00 in front of the Rõuge Peoples’ Centre. The mushroom exhibition will open on Tuesday night at 18:00 in the same place. A detailed schedule is on the Viitina Nature Education Centre home page:
The dog stinkhorn (Mutinus caninus) is not to be found every day and everywhere. In Rõuge it is present
The red-banded cortinarius (Cortinarius armillatus) is one of the massively occurring mushrooms this year
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