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Weekday Nature Walk: The Tinder Tree

1 Apr 2021 2 minute read 0 comments tych0_21 $0.05

This week, I visited a local park consisting of woods hills, creek valleys, and open prairie. For this walk, I decided to stick mostly to the creek valley as well as the woods, following the trails that banked the creek as I went. The land was previ...

Rainbow in the forest - Rubroboletus legaliae (Krwistoborowik lubczykowy)

28 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68 $0.09

    It does not have a hat and does not look like a mushroom in general. It can be up to 2-3 cm in diameter. Closed pear-shaped, spherical, covered with a layer of mycelium that peels away from the whole, but gives a beautiful silvery color t...

Photos of fresh fruitings after recent rains

25 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21 $0.34

I wanted share some of my photos from a walk earlier today. I didn't get any wildlife shots this time around, but I did find many fresh fungi while on my walk. I have attached images along with my assumed species IDs. There were also several fungi th...

Salmon in the forest - Blushing waxycap or Turpentine waxycap - Wodnicha pomarańczowa (Hygrophorus pudorinus)

22 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68 $0.13

Salmon in the forest     The mushroom is inedible, its color is one of the most characteristic of the mushrooms found in the forest. You can fill your eyes with it without touching it, admire it, not touch it, admire it and not touch it ..... :) The...

Beautiful minimalism, Geastrum minimum (Gwiazdosz najmniejszy)

20 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68 $0.14

    This mushroom does not have a separate cap, it is usually spherical. It is very small, the maximum diameter is only about 2 cm. Color grayish, dirty white, yellowish white.       the outer sheath (exoperidium) consists of...

Turkey tail (Trametes versicolor)

18 Mar 2021 1 minute read 3 comments tych0_21 $0.03

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...

Weekend Nature Walk: A glacial lake and a forest covered in artist's bracket

15 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments tych0_21 $0.02

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...

A Few Images Collected From the Recent Thaw (North America)

8 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21 $0.10

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...

Royal bolete - Worms do not recognize noble titles - Borowik królewski (Butyriboletus regius)

4 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68 $0.09

    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    ...

Ebony cup (Pseudoplectania nigrella) - a small mushroom of great possibilities - medicinal mushrooms

19 Feb 2021 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68 $0.04

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...