Extreme heat and lack of humidity delay the autumn mushroom season in Spain

The meteorological autumn has already started, but not the most anticipated campaign for mushroom foragers; the lack of precipitation and the heat have caused the soil to not have enough moisture for the proliferation of fungi, a fact that may change with the arrival of dana Alice. The autumn mushroom season in Spain usually starts in September and lasts until December; it is then that species highly appreciated in gastronomy such as boletus, chanterelles, cardoon mushrooms, and llanegas, among others, are collected. The director of the European Micological Institute (EMI), Fernando Martínez, has explained to Efeagro that the 2025 season "is being very irregular"; for example, in the Pyrenees and some areas of the Cantabrian Sea and the Levant, there is a good production of edible wild mushrooms. However, in northern and central Spain, the campaign has not yet started and the forecasts are not optimistic due to the poor precipitation and the "scarce humidity in the superficial ...