1st step of the identification : collection site spotting
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Before even collecting the mushroom, let's check the area and its surroundings:
- let's try to spot other growing specimens of this species. In our case, there are indeed a couple of other specimens growing nearby. Getting hold of other specimens of the same species proves very helpful during the determination (missing features from one specimen but not the other, various stages of maturity, etc.), but one must make sure here not to mix together different species only because they happen to grow close from one another.
- let's analyse the collection site: is this a wood, a forest, a park? what are the nearby trees? Let's note for future reference that we are here in a woodland, with broad-leaved trees.
