It stands between the leaves under a hawthorn and an oak in Thijsse’s Hof: the green tuber manite. As innocent as he looks, he is so dangerous. ‘Death cap’, it’s called in English. “You only have to eat one of them and you’re done”, garden manager Johan Görtemöller’s warning is clear: we leave these neatly.
The insidious thing about the green tuberous manite is that it resembles some edible mushrooms. If you have eaten it, you will get sick for a while, but then you will recover. While you think nothing is wrong, the poison of this mushroom destroys your liver. You die in a few days. That happens to a few people every year. Also experienced mushroom pickers.
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There are many more mushrooms in Thijsse’s Hof. From Judas ear to parasol mushroom and from dead man’s fingers to witch butter. “We still miss the real gnome mushroom that everyone knows, red with white dots. That is the fly agaric that lives together with birch trees. Because we don’t have birch trees in the Hof, we don’t have a fly agaric mushroom yet. But we are working on that. We will soon be birch plants.”
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Foxes and a pine marten also pass by in the broadcast of Natural North Holland from the Thijsse’s Hof. “We’ve put up wildlife cameras to see which animal buries the eggs that we sometimes find in the sand. We know that some predators do this as a pantry. They then come back later to dig up the egg and munch on it Foxes don’t climb a tree to snatch an egg from a nest. The pine marten does.” The placed wildlife camera provided proof!