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24 May 2019 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano
Astraeus hygrometricus - A young round mushroom, 20 to 40 mm in diameter, completely or partially submerged in the substrate. Mature, spread to 120 mm in diameter. Peridium thick and quite hard. The outer layer (exoperidium) is three-layered, hard,...
23 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano
Inonotus radiatus Sporocarps annual, sitting, grown with others, in large clusters. A hat in the shape of a console. An uneven surface, often lumpy, usually radially wrinkled, indistinctly brindle, in her youth silky pubescent, sometimes with brown...
23 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Lori Svensen - viking ventures
Here are two cool pictures I took at the gardens of Chalice Well in Glastonbury, England. I was just starting to play with macro imagery and was very, very pleased with these results. I only had a set of extension tubes for my camera at the time...
23 May 2019 2 minute read 2 comments Solominer
I see more and more flowers every year with these blueberry plants. Every flower is a potential blue berry, though they have a long transformation ahead of them before they are ready. Luckily the bees were hard at work pollinating all of them. ...
23 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano
Rhizina undulata - Mushroom reaches a diameter of 20 to 80 mm, but there are also sporocarps with a diameter of up to 150 mm; thin - it reaches a thickness of 2 to 4 mm; partially empty - from the substrate side; it has a chestnut-brown, red-brown,...
23 May 2019 1 minute read 1 comment marianomariano
Tarzetta cupularis - Mushroom diameter 5-20 mm, shaped like a cup, glass, set on a short, central shaft; with age, it can be more cupped, outstretched. Sometimes a bit deep in the ground. The external surface is a pale, granular, slightly whitish ha...
23 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano
Mycena tintinnabulum - Hat diameter 10 to 20 mm. Hemispherical in shape at the young, dullly bell-shaped, later arched to the outstretched. In gray-brown, brown, dark-red brown to black-brown, light-free whitish. On the surface, radially striated, w...
22 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
This evergreen shrub is now native to Georgia, though originally from China and was brought over by boat a long time ago and some how got into the wild and established itself. Its been here for a long time as it was also collected by the Lewis and Cl...
22 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano
Phlebia radiata - Mushroom does not produce a hat, it reaches up to 10 mm thick; young sporocarps are pale pink, orange-red, ocher-yellow, and with age they fade and get a flesh-colored color; it is flat, loosely attached to the ground, sometimes...
21 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano
Pholiota flammans - Hat diameter 30-80 mm, young hemispherical, later arched, opulent. The surface is dry, slightly shiny, slightly slippery after rain. The colors are yellowish-yellow, orange-yellow with yellow, curved scales, with age more bare. T...
