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Roberts geranium and hart's-tongue fern - beauties that we can meet during walks in the woods

20 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Roberts geranium (Geranium robertianum) is a beautiful flower that can be found almost all over Europe, Africa and Asia. It is quite common, but its favorite place is forests, groves, where we often go in search of edible mushrooms....

Meadow representative of coral-shaped mushrooms - Clavulinopsis corniculata (Meadow Coral)

19 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

Unlike many similar mushrooms whose shapes resemble corals, this species usually grows in the open, not deep in the forest. Hence its name - Meadow Coral, because it loves pastures, meadows, all kinds of grass, lawns. It grows out of the grou...

Devil's urn - an interesting mushroom with a demonic name

18 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

Devil's urn - interesting tree fungus Although its name sounds quite mysterious and demonic, there is nothing unusual about this mushroom other than its shape, which may indeed resemble an urn with ashes. It is one of the first harbingers...

Mushrooms like ripe flowers - Microstoma protractum

17 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

Mushrooms like ripe flowers Although it looks like the fungus grows in the ground, it is actually an arboreal fungus. It grows on rotting, dead wood, often buried in the ground. Indeed, this creature looks more like spring flowers than mush...

Little-known arboreal fungus - Schizophyllum amplum

16 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

This little arboreal mushroom looks wonderful, but you need a bit of luck and good eyesight to spot it. It is very small, its diameter is a maximum of 20 mm. We can meet it on dead pieces of poplar, aspen and sometimes willow wood....

Cinnabar polypore - an arboreal mushroom with a beautiful cinnabar color

15 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  This uncommon arboreal fungus stands out from other similar tree-dwelling species. Its bright red, vermilion color is visible from a distance, and the mushroom itself sometimes, especially after rain, looks like a piece of meat attac...

Crab of the woods, or Chicken of the woods - an edible and tasty arboreal parasite

14 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

This edible arboreal mushroom has various interesting names. Some call the mushroom "crab of the woods", or "sulfur polypore", but the most common common name is "chicken of the woods". The fungus is quite common and appears in Europe in spri...

Fairy fingers or white spindles - a rare edible mushroom that looks like an anemone

13 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

    There are many more species like this mushroom, which look like sea anemones or white worms. Colloquially, this mushroom is called fairy fingers or white spindles and in Latin Clavaria vermicularis. It is a rare edible mushroom tha...

Morel mushroom, or sponge morel - a very expensive and desirable spring edible mushroom

12 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

Spring is approaching Europe with great strides, it is a time when we can already look for amazing mushrooms, both in terms of appearance and taste. This mushroom is of course morel mushroom, valued in the kitchen and very expensive edible mu...

Artist's fungus or bear bread - another overflow parasite that heals

11 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  This quite common, overwritten mushroom is a perennial species. It can be found throughout the year most often on dead deciduous trunks, but it happens on coniferous and live trees. The mushroom can reach very large sizes, and its...