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Photos of fresh fruitings after recent rains

25 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21

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

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

    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

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

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

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

    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

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...

Geopora arenicola (Zagrzebka piaskowa) - Underground mushrooms in Europe

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...

Earth tongues (Geoglossum) - little known mushrooms

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...