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Freckled dapperling - not one amateur would think it was a Parasol mushroom

4 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

This mushroom may remind inexperienced mushroom pickers of the popular Parasol mushroom, only small. Nothing could be more wrong. This is the Freckled dapperling (Echinoderma asperum or Lepiota aspera), which is not poisonous, but its repulsive...

Citron amanita - a death trap for the inexperienced

3 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

I'll start right away with a warning. The lemon fly agaric is very similar to the white, deadly variety Death cap (Amanita phalloides). During walks in the forest in search of edible mushrooms, we often come across this species of mushroom. It...

Orange chanterelle - a rare but delicious edible mushroom

1 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

This undoubtedly rare edible mushroom can only be found in Europe. Although it is not protected, it should not be harvested for culinary purposes. The fungus likes a moist, shaded area, most often it can be found on beech trees. It is not dem...

Aromatic and healing "Snow Queen" - that is White Nenuphar

30 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

Summer is the time when we can enjoy our eyes with flowers called water lily, or nenuphar. It is an aquatic plant, so if there is a pond, a water reservoir or a pond nearby, we can encounter this beautiful flower. It is an ornamental plant t...

Tasty edible toadstool appearing in early summer - Blushing amanita

29 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

If you do not know about mushrooms, do not pick this species. Although it is edible, it is very easy to confuse it with a similar species, i.e. Blushing amanita (Amanita rubescens) or, worse, with the spotted Panther cap or False blusher (Aman...

Fly agaric or Fly amanita - is it poison, drug, or useful medicine?

28 Mar 2024 1 minute read 3 comments madventure

Today a little unconventional about mushrooms, because the story that the red fly agaric is red and has white dots has become boring. Of course, photos will always, regardless of the content, be different and original for everyone and will c...

"Royal Blue" or Veronica austriaca - a beautiful field flower with health properties

27 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

    This undoubtedly beautiful species of plant, giving blue flowers, is a guest popular throughout Europe and South Asia. The place where I found it is a beautiful forest clearing surrounded mainly by pine trees. But you can meet this...

Tinder fungus, bizarre forms of medicinal arboreal fungus

26 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

Tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius), commonly known as polypore, is probably the most common species of arboreal fungus. There was a lot of it in the beech forests where I was walking recently. It appeared in different places, on different tre...

This is one of the largest arboreal edible mushrooms - Pheasant's back mushroom

25 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

Few people know this mushroom, and the fact that it is an edible arboreal mushroom is very little. An adult specimen can surprise you with its size, because it can be up to a meter in diameter. Unfortunately, such a specimen is no longer used...

Such surprises happen in the middle of nowhere - Siberian iris

24 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

I met this flower walking in the lowland meadows a few days ago. At first I thought it might be a remnant of an old habitat, a house, but no. It turned out that the flowers that grow in this place are wild and grow completely without human in...