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Tree by the Creek covered in mushrooms - Infrared Photography

22 Nov 2019 3 minute read 0 comments Solominer $0.11

I usually see fungus growing on dead tree logs, but in this case a grouping of live trees had some wood loving mushrooms growing on their trunks. These trees were on the edge of the creek, and had three trunks coming from the crown of the tree.    C...

Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Red toadstool

22 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano $0.02

Amanita muscaria - Red Toadstool The highly poisonous species, though, the young sporocarps lacking white dots fried in butter are a delicacy. During the Second World War, the Soviet Red Army ate even those with dots. But it's a different human spe...

Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Langermannia gigantea (600 mm)

21 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano $0.06

Langermannia gigantea - The fruiting bodies are very large, they reach 100-600 mm in diameter; it has an irregularly spherical or slightly flattened shape; the outer cover (exoperidium) is thin, white in young sporocarps, smooth and slightly velvety...

Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Lycoperdon utriforme

21 Nov 2019 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano $0.04

Lycoperdon utriforme - Massive fruiting body, reaches a diameter of 100 to 200 mm and a similar height. In the shape of a short club-shaped, broadly pear-shaped, sometimes spherical-tuberous, at the top slightly flattened, wrinkled or shallowly min...

Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Pycnoporellus alboluteus

20 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano $0.08

Pycnoporellus alboluteus - Mushroom annual. In the shape of a rather irregular, mostly cushion, resupinate, more or less elongated. Reaching a length from 100 to 3000 mm and a width of 50 to 500 mm. Sometimes it spreads out - bent 4-40 x 30 - 50 x 1...

Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Merulius tremellosus

20 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano $0.03

Merulius tremellosus - A one-year mushroom, horizontally spread, vertically spread-out. Single diameter 10 to 50 mm, up to 5 mm thick. It connects with other individuals in lobes with undulating edges, with shell-shaped, fan-shaped capes at the ends...

Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Elaphomyces muricatus

19 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano $0.08

Elaphomyces muricatus - The fruiting body is 10 to 50 mm in diameter. In the shape of a spherical, sometimes subject to local deformations. A bark of light yellow, honey, ocher, beige to brown-brown, sometimes with a reddish hue. Covered with warts...

Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Arrhenia lobata

19 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano $0.03

Arrhenia lobata - Sporulus 5 to 40 mm, rarely spherical, more often ovoid (with a narrower end attached to the substrate) and unilaterally (and not necessarily a means) attached and / or suspended (to / above the ground), or later adnate. Surf...

Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Ophiocordyceps gracilis

18 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano $0.02

Ophiocordyceps gracilis - Spherical, egg-shaped head, sometimes distorted. Dimensions 7 x 5 mm. The whole surface gently points (estuaries). Yellow-orange, orange, sometimes with shades of brown or red. Stem (sterile part) 25 to 40 mm long, 2 to 4 m...

Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Scutellinia scutellata

15 Nov 2019 1 minute read 3 comments marianomariano $0.03

Scutellinia scutellata - Mushroom with a diameter of 5 to 20 mm, initially spherical, then cup-shaped or discoid, without a stem; bright red, crimson, brick interior; outer side brownish, covered with dark, bristly, short hair, denser and longer (up...