Gucchi: Foraging for world’s most expensive mushroom in Kashmir

Gucchi mushroom Kashmir

Like carpets that Kashmir weaves but ill-affords for itself, the valley produces more than 625 tons of costly morels that sell at a cost higher than silver in the global market.

Come spring and hundreds of people living in the Kashmir foothills will leave for, what they say, the Gucchi hunt. Usually arduous journeys, it is expertise and fate that helps collectors to locate the morels in the coniferous forests, the most expensive mushrooms that cannot be cultivated commercially.

A major Kashmir export, these mushrooms are a treasure for collectors and a taste for consumers. Collectors take months in harvesting these mushrooms and many weeks to sun-drying them before selling them.

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