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The mículas and mansarones mushrooms

Quintanar de la Sierra, Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos

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The mículas and mansarones mushrooms

Food and drink · Quintanar de la Sierra, Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos

Image of Quintanar de la Sierra, not of the place itself.

The pine woods give a notable mushroom harvest: mículas, as the saffron milk cap is called here, spring mansarones and boletus, russulas and milk caps that in autumn fill baskets and frying pans across all the pine-wood villages.

Photo: Tiritiuk (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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