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Polyporus alveolaris - little known arboreal mushrooms

25 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Hat The hat is orange yellow, sometimes ocher yellow. It has scales that are slightly darker than the entire hat. The most common shape is round or oval. The center of the hat is slightly concave, the edges slightly wavy. Hymenofor The p...

Morchella conica - edible spring mushrooms

24 Nov 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  The fruiting body of this mushroom is basically one big bag empty inside. It can be up to 15 cm high, of which the hat usually takes 50 to 70%. The mushroom has a conical shape, sometimes oval or round, the edge of the cap is adhered, dist...

Dead man's fingers - mushrooms with unusual shapes

23 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  This is one of the most unusual mushrooms that can be found during mushroom picking - Dead man's fingers Hat, Leg The fruiting body has irregular shapes. May be club-shaped. oval, resembling human fingers. Length up to 11 cm, thickness up t...

Hydnellum peckii Banker - Unusual mushrooms

20 Nov 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  The fungus takes various shapes, it can be spherical, club-shaped, conical, funnel-shaped. The surface is usually white with characteristic blood-red drops of discharge. With age, the tip of the fungus becomes flat, the droplets disappear,...

Auricularia mesenterica - a rare mushroom

19 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  The fungus does not have a well-shaped hat, it is attached to the side of the ground, i.e. to dead tree trunks. It is outstretched, an adult specimen resembles a fan. Most often it grows singly, but sometimes as it grows, the specimens grow...

A rare edible mushroom - Ghost Bolete (Leccinum holopus)

18 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  The cap of this mushroom species can reach up to 10 cm in diameter. The color, as the name of the mushroom suggests, is usually white, sometimes with a gray or blue tinge. The shape is similar to that of goats, semicircular at the beginning...

Wolf's milk, Groening's slime? spore explosion, like a festival of colors

16 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Here, unfortunately, I have a problem with identifying the fungus, because firstly I suspect that it is a slime mold, i.e. neither a fungus, nor a plant or an animal. Everything seems to indicate that it is a tree Rulik from last season....

Helvella spadicea - Fungi with bactericidal properties

14 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  This time a find from June this year. I have already written about this genre, but today it is a bit different. Mushrooms tend to absorb heavy metals, and in this case Helvella Spadicea is in the lead. Collects very large amounts of Nic...

A bit about beautiful tree mushrooms that I saw for the first time and not only

12 Nov 2024 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Trochę o pięknych grzybach nadrzewnych, które spotkałem pierwszy raz i nie tylko Autumn is in full swing, so more and more tree mushrooms are appearing in the forests. There is no shortage of edible, medicinal, or just beautiful species among them....

Parasitic fungi - Pseudoboletus parasiticus - a fungus on a fungus

12 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  This is a rare case of the canine fungus that is edible. It mainly parasitizes on the fruiting bodies of the warty and common marsh. The cap of the bay bolete is gray-yellow, olive-gray, and often resembles its host. At first, it is semici...