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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...

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...

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...

Another, but delayed, season of Cerioporus squamosus

14 Jun 2025 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Kolejny, ale opóźniony sezon żagwi łuskowatej (Cerioporus squamosus) I have been observing this type of mushroom for many years in the same place. It grows on an old dead willow and it is beautiful to watch its growth, which is visible from day to da...

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,...

Common Stinkhorn - for some creatures like Chanel perfumes

12 Jun 2025 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...

Winter arboreal mushrooms - Phaesolenia densa

25 May 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

There is nothing to show, I'm tiny, I have a few millimeters, but I'm beautiful There is nothing to show, I am tiny, I have a few millimeters, but I am beautiful. I grow mainly on poplar branches in late autumn and winter. Value: inedible (becau...

What mushrooms can I visit our kitchen at the beginning of summer? There are several controversial genres

13 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  Saffron ringless amanita The next weekend walks in the June forest bring more and more edible mushroom species. One of the first edible toadstools is the yellowish toadstool. It can be found in June in deciduous forests in sunny, warm pl...

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...

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...