Five good mushrooms in Békés county

Of Hungary's 19 counties, Békés, in the south-eastern part of the country, is not famous for its mushrooms. It is a heavily converted agrocultural landscape, or agrodesert. The desertification effect is compounded by climate change, which is causing increasingly extreme weather, and the irrational drainage of water from the landscape. Before 2000, as a young mushroom picker, I was able to marvel at the disappearing wealth of good mushrooms. In the autumn of 1998, I found my first field blewits Lepista personata, a wonderful memory. To this day I can recall the joy of finding it in the tall grass. Field blewits are not one of the five mushrooms I'm going to show you because they have a very distinctive, strong flavour that many people find too strong. There are around thirty edible mushrooms in the county. These have completely different flavours and textures, adding variety to our mushroom or meat dishes. What's more, the aniseed funnel Clitocybe odora can even be added to sweets!
On the mosaics in the picture, if you are an advanced mushroom hunter, you will recognise the slate bolete Leccinum duriusculum, the poplar fieldcap Cyclocybe cylindracea, the fairy ring mushroom Marasmius oreades, the coastal mushroom Agaricus litoralis, the giant puffball Langermannia gigantea. These are five of our really popular, well-known and great edible mushrooms. More specifically, the fruiting bodies of the organism.
You can find articles about all of them in Hungarian on my blog by searching for their names.