At the end of August this year, I took part in a five-day mushroom excursion in the Wechsel region of Lower Austria, which was organized by the Austrian Mycological Society (ÖMG). From August 26 to 30 we made daily excursions to interesting areas to find, identify and map as many mushroom species as possible.

We visited the area around St. Corona am Wechsel at about 840m above sea level, Mariensee (500m), the Steiersberger Schwaig (1,400m) and the Kranichberger Schwaig (1,740m). We used microscopy to identify unknown species in the evening.

The surrounding area is influenced by both the Pannonian and Alpine climate and has a large occurrence of coniferous and mixed forests, as well as interesting meadows on the alpine pastures.

On the very first day there was an interesting discovery of Rhodonia placenta, a rare species.

The view from Kranichberger Schwaig. We escaped a thunderstorm there just in time. And on the way back there was another rare find: Pseudotricholoma metapodium, the first find at the location.

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