Nature, animals, plants, mushrooms

Nature, animals, plants, mushrooms

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Sulfur tuft or mushrooms on the catwalk

18 Aug 2022 1 minute read 2 comments marianomariano68

This was my first association when I saw these beauties "parading" on a cut spruce trunk. There are not many creatures in nature that look beautiful throughout their lives. Mushrooms are such an example. Their lives are short-lived, but the phases t...

Healing properties of mushrooms - Hypholoma fasciculare

17 Aug 2022 1 minute read 2 comments marianomariano68

Poisonous doesn't mean useless! Properties. Although Hypholoma fasciculare is a poisonous mushroom, because it causes abdominal pain, vomiting and other symptoms similar to food poisoning, it is a medicinal mushroom. It contains antibiotic compounds...

Cortinarius semisanguineus (Surprise Webcap) - Poisonous mushrooms in the world

16 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Cortinarius semisanguineus (Surprise Webcap) - The diameter of the hat can reach 6 cm. When the fruiting body is young it has a bell-shaped, hemispherical, arched shape. It opens with age and becomes outstretched, with a small tapered hump. The youn...

Coprinellus disseminatus - beautiful in youth, witches in old age

11 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

The hat is smooth, curly, bell-shaped with a diameter of up to 12 mm. color coffee with milk, light brown, brown, yellowish-gray, white-gray, darkening with age. It is quite thin and delicate, translucent in older fruiting bodies, with fine hairs....

Helvella crispa - beautiful lady among the mushrooms

9 Aug 2022 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

The mushroom can reach a size of up to 13-15 cm in height (about 11 cm can be on a leg). The hat, although it is sometimes difficult to separate, can be up to 5 cm in diameter. Its shape may be associated a bit with a real women's hat, beautifully...

Calocera viscosa - Fascinating mushroom shapes - Mushrooms like corals

7 Aug 2022 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

Calocera Visosa, commonly known as Great Hornet, is a gelatinous mushroom, most often light orange in color, yellow and sometimes white. Old fruiting bodies may be dark orange in color. It grows bushy, branches at the top, forming characteristic hor...

Galerina marginata (funeral bell or the deadly skullcap) - Deadly poisonous mushrooms

6 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

The mushroom is quite small, the maximum size of the hat is about 5 cm. The young fruiting body has a bell-shaped, arched shape, becoming flatter with age. Color brown, light brown, amber, dark brown. the edge zone darkens brown. It is soaked with...

Boletus luridus (Lurid bolete) - Edible mushrooms in Europe

4 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Boletus luridus (Lurid bolete) - The hat can reach 20 cm in diameter and more. The color is yellow-orange, sometimes olive with a pinkish tinge, darkening when touched. In young mushrooms, the pores are yellow, change color over time and become or...

Tarzetta catinus - Amazing mushroom shapes

2 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

A mushroom with a diameter of 2 to 5 cm, in the shape of a cup, small jug, bowl, semi-transparent, mounted on a very short, central handle. Sometimes the shaft is deep in the ground and is invisible. The outer surface is light, grainy, slightly wh...

Tricholoma virgatum (Gąska pieprzowa) - highly poisonous lamellar mushrooms

31 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

The hat is gray, silver-gray, sometimes delicate cream inserts, with a pointed tip, striped. Diameter up to 8 cm. The surface of the hat is dry, prone to cracking. The gills are dense, light gray, they darken with age. Stem, widening downwards, whi...