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Common Stinkhorn - for some creatures like Chanel perfumes

14 hours ago 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  It is a fungus that I come across in the forest every summer. It always fascinates with its sophisticated shape and an equally sophisticated smell, which is unbearable for humans, because it resembles the stench of decaying carcass. But to...

Freckled dapperling - even an experienced mushroom picker may have doubts

9 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  At first glance, most mushroom pickers would say that it is parasol mushroom, only still young, undeveloped. And it actually looks almost identical with a slight difference. The Freckled dapperling is characteristic for its hat with distin...

Conditionally edible mushroom - Mica cap

7 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  While walking in the woods, we often come across clumps of mushrooms that seem inedible. In the case of a Mica cap, the situation is a bit different. It is an edible mushroom, but only in the early stages of development. I have never eate...

Dryad's saddle or pheasant's back mushroom - Tasty spring arboreal mushroom

6 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  It was in my regions that underestimated by many pickers, early spring edible mushrooms appeared. Only that it is an arboreal species and you should not always look for it on rotten wood, but on old trunks. It often grows on healthy tre...

Warmth in a cold forest - Winter Flame, edible winter mushrooms - Flammulina velutipes

31 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Warmth in a cold forest - Winter Flame In the environment of people fascinated with mushrooms, we call it "Flamulinka", but the name Płomiennica Zimowa also has a justified origin. It is a mushroom that looks like a smoldering fire in a g...

Underground edible mushrooms of Europe - Hydnotrya tulasnei

30 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  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 p...

Ustilago maydis - Little-known mushrooms - the edible corn parasite

29 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Corn smut (Ustilago maydis) It is a fungus that grows on corn cobs. It is a parasite that destroys maize crops and should not be included in the feed of farm animals. But the interesting thing is that when the fruiting body is still young,...

Fresh porcini mushrooms in a cream sauce stewed in white wine with onion and Pene noodles

27 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  The period when we can enjoy fresh species of mushrooms, especially noble ones, is very short. Sometimes it lasts two months, sometimes a week, or it is not there at all because there was a crop failure, a drought. However, we managed to...

Mock oyster - Winter arboreal mushrooms

26 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  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. The...

Turbo brief history of Psilocybin mushrooms

25 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments FreeCryptoBro

  Psilocybin mushrooms have been used throughout history in religious, spiritual & divine contexts. It is thought that one of the earliest depictions of psilocybin use comes from a cave in Algeria, supposedly 9000 years old and depicting a "bee-face...