Plantwatch: Mushroom madness – fungi finale?

Harmful foraging? So long as there's cash in harvesting wild fungi they face being stripped away, so they need protecting

Plenty of rain has brought out lots of mushrooms, including giant puffballs, psychedelic red and white fly agaric, field mushrooms and many more.

One of the most prized edible fungi is the penny bun or cep, the classic mushroom with a brown cap and stumpy beige stalk you expect gnomes to sit on.