Calling it melaleuca mushrooms because this kind of mushroom grows on the layer of leaves falling in acacia melaleuca forest, and it just springs up after the first rains of the season.

Melaleuca mushroom’s cap is light-purple round shape. The life cycle of the mushrooms is quite short, just from five to seven days, after that, it will be withered.

Melaleuca mushrooms cost quite cheap, just from 20 thousand to 30 thousand VND per kilogram. This kind of mushrooms can cooked into diverse dishes such as soup, stir fry meals, or porridge.

Following are the series of photos taken by the photographer Tran Dinh Duc Hieu after several days of “traveling” to melaleuca forest to take footage of picking up melaleuca mushrooms.

The path leading to the mushroom forest

Local people’s vehicles parked along the road as they went on to pick mushrooms

Comb through the leaves to find mushrooms

The first mushrooms

Picking mushrooms

Picking mushrooms in the late afternoon sunlight

A basket full of mushrooms

Taking mushrooms to the city

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