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18 Mar 2021 1 minute read 3 comments tych0_21
This is an infographic/ID aid that I made for the relatively common shelf fungi, turkey tail. This fungi has been used since at least 500 B.C. for its apparent revitalizing effect. Contemporary research on compounds derived from the species, includin...
15 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
I had another free day this weekend and decided to head out to a forest reserve I had never visited before. The reserve has mixed stands of pine and hardwood that ring along the slopes and valleys that border the reserve's central lake. The undulati...
8 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
There are trace stands of old growth forest left near my home that I enjoy exploring. Unfortunately most forests in the region have been cleared over the last 150 years to make way for farmland, but some old-growth remains. Recently we have had a qui...
4 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68
It does not matter if you are a grandfather or a king - the worm does not check noble titles. More precisely, it is not worms, but fly larvae (maggots) that love to stay there. Older date people say ...
19 Feb 2021 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68
Healing properties of the small Ebony cup mushroom (Pseudoplectania nigrella) During scientific work, a substance (peptide) called plectasin was isolated from Pseudoplectania nigrella. Only a few invertebrates, such as spiders or scor...
30 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68
The fungus is classified as an underground species. The fruiting body can be up to 2 cm in diameter. It is quite deeply embedded in the substrate, on the surface you can see its cup-shaped tip. The edges are irregular jagged, cracked. Th...
25 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68
The shape of the mushroom is most often slender, club-shaped. The bubonic fungus (Earthen tongue) can be 3 to 9 cm tall. The fungus may be dark brown, through graphite brown to almost black. The head (hat) is darker and almost blac...
19 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68
Orange-yellow oyster mushroom. The hat can be up to 8 cm in diameter, has a bright orange color, very visible in winter weather. Semicircular in appearance, in the shape of a fan, outstretched with age. Adherent to the ground sideways. Th...
8 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68
Underground fungus, most often tuber-shaped, spherical or ovoid, with small indentations, furrows, bulges. It can reach 5-6 cm in diameter. The surface is somewhat reminiscent of potato tubers, chestnut. The color ranges from red-brown to...
22 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68
Why is it called Parrot Toadstool or Parrot Waxcap? The very first look brings to mind a bird. The color of these mushrooms is surprisingly similar to that of a parrot, it is very varied and variable. The aquatic parrot mushroom can be olive, g...
