Mushroom counselling
Which mushrooms ended up in your basket when you went mushroom hunting? What do you need to consider when preparing them? We will advise you personally and free of charge.
Course description
Just in time for the start of the mushroom season, the district administration department is reopening its mushroom advice centres. From 18 August up to and including 20 October 2025, you will have the opportunity to have your mushrooms checked by experts on Mondays.
Consultation times:
- Rathaus am Marienplatz, Fischbrunnen entrance:Monday, 10 am to 1 pm and 4.30 pm to 6 pmTelephone: 089/ 233-28423
- Pasing Town Hall, Landsberger Straße 486:Monday, 8.30 to 11.30 a.m.Telephone: 089/ 233-37237
Tips for mushroom hunting
- Collect moderately and in an environmentally friendly way.
- Leave old, eaten, rotten and very small, young mushrooms where you find them.
- Cut them off or twist them out? It makes no difference to the fungus organism. For a reliable identification, however, you or the mushroom consultant need a whole fruiting body with a stem base.
- Always keep unknown species separate from edible mushrooms for identification. Plastic containers with lids or aluminium foil are suitable for this purpose.
- Check the mushrooms for maggots while still in the forest. Store the mushrooms in a cool place and bring them to the mushroom centre as fresh as possible.
- Only prepare flawless, fresh mushroom fruiting bodies that you have recognised beyond doubt as edible mushrooms.
- Many wild mushrooms are unpalatable or poisonous when raw, so heat the mushrooms sufficiently (for about 20 minutes, depending on the type and quantity).
Suspicion of mushroom poisoning
Contact the poison control centre immediately on:Giftnotruf 089/19240 Klinikum Rechts der IsarIsmaninger Straße 2281675 München.
Please note:
- All persons involved in the mushroom meal must receive medical treatment, even if they do not yet have any symptoms.
- Never induce vomiting with table salt!
- Never drink milk!
- Save cleaning residues, leftover food, vomit, faeces and urine for diagnosis.
Questions & Answers
There are about 2400 flowering plants in Bavaria, but twice as many species of fungi.
Without fungi there would be no forest. The reason for this is that almost all forest trees form a symbiotic relationship with fungi via their roots and thus an exchange of nutrients takes place. Fungi decompose dead organic material, including wood, on a large scale and return it to the natural cycle.
in dry periods, it can take up to two weeks for fungal growth to start after heavy rainfall.
Kreisverwaltungsreferat
Hauptabteilung III
Gewerbeangelegenheiten und Verbraucherschutz
Bezirksinspektion West
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Landeshauptstadt München
Kreisverwaltungsreferat
Hauptabteilung III
Gewerbeangelegenheiten und Verbraucherschutz
Bezirksinspektion West
Ruppertstraße 19
80466 München
Fax: +49 89 233-25539
Address
Landsberger Straße 486
81241 München