Mushroom advice at the Botanic Garden

Anyone who spent the weekend in the woods and is unsure what is in the basket gets a first-hand assessment at the garden's teaching building: the Botanic Garden's mushroom experts identify the finds visitors bring along and explain how to tell edible species from poisonous ones and where foraging is permitted in Berlin. The trip is worthwhile even without a find of your own, because there is plenty to learn from the baskets other visitors open up. Meet in front of or inside the Botanikschule; the advice itself is free of charge, while normal admission applies if you want to walk the grounds afterwards. This Monday session starts at 2 pm — an hour earlier than the sessions on the following Mondays.