An instance of what occurs when wild mushroom mania strikes comes from Christchurch, New Zealand, in the nineteen nineties. Hagley Park in Christchurch was established within the 1850s with oaks from England that had been introduced out by a few of the primary "official" European settlers. Until 1993 porcini was quietly harvested in Hagley Park by a number of Europeans who knew what they were harvesting and did not intend to inform anybody else about it. Then in 1993 an observant gardener on the university campus decided to take a few the fruiting our bodies to Tony Cole for identification. Across town, on the Canterbury University campus, porcini was meeting a extra ignominious destiny as periodic mowing delivered shredded porcini to the compost heap.
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