Workshop presented by: Agroscope-CH, Mycology Group within the Plant Protection Research Department

Languages: French and English

In this workshop, you'll discover that mushrooms are everywhere and on everything around you, and that they're even used to colour and flavour your favourite sweets, cakes, biscuits and perfumes. Through a series of fun experiments, you'll learn all about these microscopic organisms.

Workshop led by: Dr. Katia Gindro (Group Manager -  Mycology Group within the Plant Protection Research Department)

And members of the Mycology Group: Sara Leoni, Océane Devisme, Julie Gindro and Clara Chevalley

Button mushroom in its natural environment © Mario del Curto, Switzerland

A community of fungi isolated from a drop of rainwater © Mario del Curto, Switzerland

Mushroom that has mummified a wasp © Mario del Curto, Switzerland

Roquefort: its taste is due to a fungus that is seeded in the cheese

Fluorescent fungus seen under the microscope: it makes lots of little spores that are carried by the wind

All the mushrooms that can be extracted from a single plant

Mushrooms grow everywhere and come in all sizes. This one emerges from a trunk and measures no more than 1 cm © Carole Parodi, Agroscope