Nature, animals, plants, mushrooms

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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...

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...