If it's girth you go for, look no further than Tapa's own Vaino Rei. A man who knows his mushrooms, he was nevertheless taken aback on Tuesday to come across a rough-stemmed boletus weighing in at a whopping 1.4 kilograms. "We've never seen one that big before," said his friends.
Rei himself, a seasoned picker, understandably made headlines with his find. "I couldn't pick any more mushrooms after this one," he said. "They wouldn't fit in the basket!"
