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8 Sep 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure
Looking at the places where the bolete mushroom sometimes grows, one might wonder if it is not an arboreal fungus. This is because I often find them to a tree growing out of a trunk or even from the tree itself. My record specimen of the...
7 Sep 2024 1 minute read 2 comments madventure
This bird can probably be found in every corner of the world. He loves large urban agglomerations where he lives with crows and rooks from dawn to dusk. In my vicinity, they are almost a natural clock. In the morning they signal the sunri...
7 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure
It is a fungus that I come across in the forest every summer. It always fascinates with its sophisticated shape and an equally sophisticated smell, which is unbearable for humans, because it resembles the stench of decaying carcass. But to...
6 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure
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....
5 Sep 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure
Walking through the pine groves in search of slippery jack, we can very often meet other species of mushrooms that prefer similar environments. Such fungi include, among others, Wodnicha late. The cap of this mushroom can reach several cm...
3 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure
While walking in the woods, we often come across clumps of mushrooms that seem inedible. In the case of a Mica cap, the situation is a bit different. It is an edible mushroom, but only in the early stages of development. I have never eaten it, app...
2 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure
This mushroom species is a classic example of an autumn arboreal mushroom. It appears regularly in October and grows until late autumn. It can be confused with the honey mushroom by inexperienced mushroom pickers. Shellfish is not poisonous, b...
1 Sep 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure
The hat of a young marshmallow can have different shapes. Circular to semicircular, wavy or bell-shaped, sometimes the rim is rolled up with a dimple in the center, in older fruiting bodies the cap may have wrinkled edges, then become flat and funne...
31 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure
The mushroom picking trip in the middle of the week did not look promising. Information from friends and from the inhabitants of the town we were going to was rather pessimistic. Something grows, but not much, so we couldn't count on a big harves...
30 Aug 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure
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 antibioti...
