Nature, animals, plants, mushrooms

Nature, animals, plants, mushrooms

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Geopora arenicola (Zagrzebka piaskowa) - Underground mushrooms in Europe

30 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    The fungus is classified as an underground species. The fruiting body can be up to 2 cm in diameter. It is quite deeply embedded in the substrate, on the surface you can see its cup-shaped tip. The edges are irregular jagged, cracked. Th...

Ustilago maydis - Little-known mushrooms - the edible corn parasite

29 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    Corn smut (Ustilago maydis) It is a fungus that grows on corn cobs. It is a parasite that destroys maize crops and should not be included in the feed of farm animals.       But the interesting thing is that when the fruiti...

Summer flame - sister of the winter variety (Flammulina fennae) - edible mushrooms of Europe

27 Jan 2021 1 minute read 2 comments marianomariano68

      The hat can be up to 7 cm in diameter. It is ocher yellow, yellow, whitish, or even white - this is one of the features that distinguishes it from the winter flame. Smooth to the touch, slightly convex, becoming flat with age, and even curled...

Earth tongues (Geoglossum) - little known mushrooms

25 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    The shape of the mushroom is most often slender, club-shaped. The bubonic fungus (Earthen tongue) can be 3 to 9 cm tall. The fungus may be dark brown, through graphite brown to almost black. The head (hat) is darker and almost blac...

Little known edible mushrooms - Agrocybe praecox

23 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    The mushroom cap can reach up to 11 cm in diameter. When the fruiting body is young, it has a bell-shaped, then semicircular shape, and flat in old age. Color: cream, light cream, white, light ocher. During the dry season, the surface of...

Dark-scaled knight - little known edible mushrooms (Tricholoma atrosquamosum)

22 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

    The mushroom cap can be up to 10 cm in diameter. As with most of the geese family, at the beginning it has the shape of a bell, with age it opens up to become flat or concave with age. It may have a slight bulge at the tip. The sur...

Underground mushrooms - Deer truffles, Elaphomyces granulatus, Jeleniak sarni

20 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

Where did the name Derr Truffles come from?     The answer is very simple. The mushroom is inedible for humans, but it is a delicacy of roe deer and deer 😉       A mushroom with a diameter - up to 5-6 cm in diameter, most o...

Winter arboreal mushrooms - Mock oyster, Orange oyster (Phyllotopsis nidulans)

19 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    Orange-yellow oyster mushroom. The hat can be up to 8 cm in diameter, has a bright orange color, very visible in winter weather. Semicircular in appearance, in the shape of a fan, outstretched with age. Adherent to the ground sideways. Th...

Little-known edible mushrooms - Ivory waxy cap (Hygrophorus eburneus)

17 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    The mushroom cap can be up to 10 cm in diameter. White, cream, beige on a semicircular hump. During the rainy season it is slippery and slimy and sticky.       The gills are creamy white or white, quite thick, slightly converging. Leg cylindri...

This is not snow! it is a beautiful and very tasty edible mushroom, but it is protected - Coral tooth fungus (Hericium coralloides)

15 Jan 2021 1 minute read 3 comments marianomariano68

    Coral tooth fungus. It is difficult to determine the shape of this mushroom, it is irregular, it looks like a weeping willow, like snow, it can be spherical, elongated. Size up to 40 cm in diameter. It consists of loose hanging twi...