Nature, animals, plants, mushrooms

Nature, animals, plants, mushrooms

everything about what lives on Earth


Sulfur tuft Top Model 2020, or mushrooms on the catwalk.

6 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 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...

Fascinating mushroom shapes - Dumontinia tuberosa

6 Nov 2020 1 minute read 2 comments marianomariano68

    A young fruiting body has a shape, specifically its cup-shaped cap, with time it flattens and becomes a saucer, it can be slightly wavy. Diameter up to 3 cm.       The leg is quite long, up to 10 cm, but most of the leg i...

Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Slimes, Tubifera dimorphotheca (Myxomycota, Mycetozoa) arboreal sturgeon caviar

5 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Mucinous (Myxomycota, Mycetozoa) Tubifera dimorphotheca Mucinous organisms are heterotrophic organisms. They feed on other fungi, bacteria and protozoa.   They can be observed on rotting wood, decaying organic matter, forest litter, faeces of herbi...

Fascinating mushroom shapes - Calocera viscosa

1 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments 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 cha...

Common yew (Taxus baccata) not only in the garden. A poisonous tree with healing properties, anti-cancer properties

30 Oct 2020 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

    Common yew (Taxus baccata), although it is a highly poisonous tree, has numerous healing properties. Taxin is one of the poisonous substances that has been found to be high in the yews. In addition, ephedrine, flavonols, phenolic a...

Fascinating mushroom shapes - Clavulina coralloides

29 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

      (Clavulina coralloides) - a species of fungus in the family of the clove family. It has many names, for example coral carnation, comb or coral carnation.       The young fungus is snow-white, milky white, transluce...

Fascinating mushroom shapes - Ganoderma applanatum

27 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Parasite fungus. It causes a strong white rot of wood, large, perennial, arboreal, adhered to the side of the tree and the ground. Semicircular shape. It can grow up to 50 cm in width, and can be up to 7 cm thick. The edge is often with a charact...

Edible mushrooms occurring in the world - Imleria badia (Brown Boletus)

26 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

  The mushroom cap is most often brown, chestnut, diameter up to 15 cm, but there are specimens over 20 cm. The shape is slightly arched, later flattened, even curled over time. The hat may be cracked at the edges if dry weather conditions prevail....

Fascinating mushroom shapes - Tarzetta catinus

21 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    Tarzetta catinus - 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 s...

Amanita muscaria - The Amanita muscaria is hallucinogenic? are his dots poisonous? - facts and myths about Amanita muscaria.

19 Oct 2020 2 minute read 2 comments marianomariano68

Where did these dots for Amanita muscaria come from?     Hat can be of different shapes. In young fruiting bodies it is usually spherical or ovoid, with time it develops into a semicircle, later it becomes flat, and finally in old mushrooms it can...