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Winter arboreal mushrooms - Mock oyster, Orange oyster (Phyllotopsis nidulans)

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...

Underground edible mushrooms of Europe - Truflica kasztanowata (Hydnotrya tulasnei)

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...

Mushrooms with unusual colors - Parrot Toadstool or Parrot Waxcap (Gliophorus psittacinus) Wilgotnica papuzia

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...

Mushrooms with unusual colors - Hygrocybe coccineocrenata - (Wilgotnica czerwona)

19 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    Hat reaches a diameter of 3 cm, rarely larger. In young fruiting bodies it is convex and becomes flat with age. Intense scarlet, red color clearly visible. The edge of the hat is slightly rolled up and has a lighter - orange, yellowis...

A small white mushroom, probably from the Fomes family, waiting for spring

28 Nov 2020 1 minute read 2 comments marianomariano68

Friday's find is a small tree mushroom. It grows on an old dead tree. Probably the beginning of a small hubbie. The young mushroom and its hymenophore look as if it is looking for life. I won't turn, but maybe the sun will turn towards me...

Autumn mushrooms of Europe - Clitocybe nebularis

27 Nov 2020 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

    Clitocybe nebularis - The cap of this mushroom can reach over 25 cm in diameter. As with most of this type of species, it is convex at first, then becomes flat, and in old age it is concave. The hat's skin is dull. Color most often...

Autumn mushrooms of Europe - Blue roundhead - (Stropharia caerulea)

22 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    Stropharia caerulea (Blue roundhead). The cap of this species of mushroom can reach up to 10 cm in diameter. In youth it has the shape of a bell, a cone becomes semicircular with age, and even convex in old age. The color of the hat is m...

Mushrooms occurring in Europe - Gymnopus aquosus

18 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    Gymnopus aquosus - The hat may be up to 75 mm in diameter, hemispherical or arched in shape, becoming flat over time, usually with a rounded slightly concave center with a straight edge, wavy with age. Absorbs water, is smooth. When it is wet, i...

Tree mushrooms - Trembling Merulius or jelly rot (Merulius tremellosus)

15 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    Merulius tremellosus (trembling Merulius or jelly rot) - annual mushroom growing horizontally. A single fruit body has a diameter of up to 5 cm and a thickness of about 0.5 cm. It joins with other individuals to form flaps with wa...

The mushroom that grew on my home habanero pepper farm

13 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

    I grew such a mushroom this year in a box with a seedling of habanero pepper. First it was about 4mm tall.       After 2 days it was already about 1 cm tall, but still no characteristic features.       After 4 day...