“It's not just the desire to pick mushrooms to eat, it's to get to know them too”, explains a retired woman who has come to pick mushrooms in the Bellême forest, as the mushroom season gets underway in the Orne region, favored by rainy weather. The group of amateurs is accompanied by a researcher and mycologist who teaches them how to recognize edible and poisonous mushrooms, during the “Mycologiades Internationales”, organised in Bellême at the beginning of October. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES