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Foraging routes

Where to go looking for mushrooms

Turkey's forests with the most mushroom records. Each route shows the species recorded there, the months they turn up, how to get there and the rules; facts are sourced and counts come from open observation data.

  1. 1 Marmara · Istanbul

    Belgrad Forest

    A deciduous forest dominated by sessile oak just north of Istanbul, with the most mushroom records anywhere in Turkey.

    570 records · 181 species · peak Oct Open route
  2. 2 Marmara · Kırklareli, Istanbul

    Strandzha (Yıldız) Mountains

    The forested range running from the Bulgarian border towards Istanbul along Thrace's Black Sea coast.

    149 records · 72 species · peak Oct Open route
  3. 3 Black Sea · Bolu

    Bolu forests and Yedigöller

    Rugged western Black Sea forests around a chain of landslide-dammed lakes.

    175 records · 118 species · peak Aug Open route
  4. 4 Black Sea · Trabzon, Rize

    Eastern Black Sea highlands and the Kaçkars

    From the coast to alpine meadows: beech, hornbeam and chestnut forest giving way to oriental spruce.

    92 records · 65 species · peak Sep Open route
  5. 5 Aegean · Balıkesir, Çanakkale

    Kaz Mountains (Mount Ida)

    A mountain rich in endemic plants where sea and mountain climates meet, between Marmara and the Aegean; few mushroom records so far.

    8 records · 7 species · peak Oct Open route

Data sources and licences

Observations from GBIF.org (human observations and herbarium specimens; records flagged with geospatial issues excluded) and iNaturalist research-grade records, retrieved 26 October 2026. Macrofungi only (Agaricomycetes, Pezizomycetes), named to species. Every point links to its own record, with the recorder and licence (CC0, CC BY, CC BY-NC).

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Province centres: Wikidata. Region comes from the record's GADM province, or the nearest province centre when missing. For protected species (iNaturalist "threatened" or IUCN VU/EN/CR) locations are rounded to ~10 km; locations obscured by iNaturalist are marked "approximate".

An observation shows that a mushroom was seen there on that day, not that it is there now or that it may be picked. Counts reflect how many people record fungi in an area more than how common a species is.