Nature, animals, plants, mushrooms

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Does oyster mushroom have healing properties? - Edible winter mushrooms - (Pleurotus ostreatus)

13 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

Healing properties of Oyster Mushroom     The most important therapeutic effect of oyster mushroom is its antioxidant properties. Another important health-promoting feature is lowering blood sugar levels. It also helps to lower LDL cholesterol in t...

Little-known edible mushrooms - Russula virescens

11 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    The hat is large, hard and fleshy. It can be up to 15cm in diameter. Gray-green color. The skin is thick and dry. The gills are mostly white.       The leg is very massive, hard and thick. The flesh is white, very fleshy,...

Winter arboreal mushrooms - Phaesolenia densa (Frosty poplar)

9 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

There is nothing to show, I'm tiny, I have a few millimeters, but I'm beautiful     There is nothing to show, I am tiny, I have a few millimeters, but I am beautiful. I grow mainly on poplar branches in late autumn and winter. Value: inedible...

Underground edible mushrooms of Europe - Truflica kasztanowata (Hydnotrya tulasnei)

8 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    Underground fungus, most often tuber-shaped, spherical or ovoid, with small indentations, furrows, bulges. It can reach 5-6 cm in diameter. The surface is somewhat reminiscent of potato tubers, chestnut. The color ranges from red-brown to...

Little-known edible mushrooms - Gołąbek zielonawy (Russula virescens)

7 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    The hat is large, hard and fleshy. It can be up to 15cm in diameter. Gray-green color. The skin is thick and dry. The gills are mostly white.       The leg is very massive, hard and thick. The flesh is white, very fleshy, odo...

Warmth in a cold forest - Winter Flame, edible winter mushrooms - Flammulina velutipes - Płomiennica Zimowa (Flamulinka)

30 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Warmth in a cold forest - Winter Flame     In the environment of people fascinated with mushrooms, we call it "Flamulinka", but the name Płomiennica Zimowa also has a justified origin. It is a mushroom that looks like a smoldering fire in a gray win...

Mushrooms like sea anemones - Clavaria argillacea

29 Dec 2020 1 minute read 2 comments marianomariano68

    The mushroom does not have a separate hat, it consists only of a long club-shaped leg. The mushroom structure resembles sea anemones. Clavaria argillacea is usually yellow, yellow-orange, clay in color. It grows in small clusters. The clu...

Mushrooms with unusual colors - Orange peel fungus, Aleuria aurantia

24 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    Orange peel fungus (Aleuria aurantia) is a mushroom that is usually cup-shaped, sometimes ovoid or irregular. Ripe fruiting bodies usually have folded and curved edges. The largest fruiting bodies can reach 10-12 cm in diameter. Outward...

Little-known edible mushrooms - Fluted black elfin saddle (Helvella lacunosa)

23 Dec 2020 1 minute read 2 comments marianomariano68

    Slate gray saddle or Fluted black elfin saddle (Helvella lacunosa) - the mushroom has a stem and a clearly distinguished hat, which may be up to 5 cm in diameter. The color of the hat can be different, from black, through graphite,...

Mushrooms with unusual colors - Parrot Toadstool or Parrot Waxcap (Gliophorus psittacinus) Wilgotnica papuzia

22 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Why is it called Parrot Toadstool or Parrot Waxcap?     The very first look brings to mind a bird. The color of these mushrooms is surprisingly similar to that of a parrot, it is very varied and variable. The aquatic parrot mushroom can be olive, g...