Nature lover Joop Verburg spent many hours looking and searching for special mushrooms at the cemetery in Zuidwolde. That place has been a real mushroom paradise for years, including rare and special species. This week another one was added: the Large Manure Pleated Skirt.
In a report two years ago for RTV Drenthe, naturalist Joop Verburg explained why the cemetery is so suitable for mushrooms. There is little maintenance to the grass, fallen leaves are only removed once a year, few nutrients in the soil; all in all good conditions for rare mushrooms.
Verburg regularly takes a tour there and so did this week. There his eye fell on four small mushrooms, the name of which is easily explained. As if a pleated skirt has landed on a stem.
When we ask Joop Verburg about this rare mushroom, he starts talking enthusiastically. “It is really special where I found this one. Normally the Great Manure Fold Skirt grows on manure and also on wood chips. But here the mushroom grew in the grass. I tried to look closely five times. Maybe there is wood under the grass, but I couldn’t see it.”
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