Overview
- Officers stopped three men overnight Monday transporting 54 kilograms of bulbs, and the men aged 22 to 43 would not disclose the source.
- Earlier in the week, police in the Leipzig floodplain forest confiscated nearly 46 kilograms after the suspected forager fled.
- In both incidents, the bulbs were seized and theft investigations are underway.
- Regional rules prohibit large quantities or commercial foraging without approval from landowners or conservation authorities and ban collecting in nature reserves.
- Nature groups warn of poisonous look‑alikes and urge home cultivation, which gardening guides say is straightforward even in balcony pots.