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Reddish brown toadstool (amanita fulwa) - Edible toadstools in summer

9 Nov 2024 1 minute read 2 comments madventure

  The hat of this fly agaric can range in color from orange to dark brown. The hat is moist, shiny, sticky, and the edges of the hat have characteristic radially arranged grooves. There is a characteristic small tip at the top of the hat....

Scrub psathyrella candolleana - Edible spring lamellar mushrooms

7 Nov 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  The hat can be up to 6 cm in diameter. The young fruiting body is bell-shaped, eventually becoming flat as it passes through all phases of growth. The fungus is hygrophanous, that is, it changes the color of the hat when exposed to moistur...

So, a little more about autumn mushrooms from the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland

6 Nov 2024 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

No to jeszcze trochę o jesiennych grzybach z Jury Krakowsko-Częstochowskiej Our last camping trip this year in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland resulted in a fairly decent harvest. There was a large variety of both edible and inedible species. I also c...

Hemileccinum depilatum - A scalloped scallop, a rare edible mushroom.

4 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  The name of the folded fawn comes from its structure. The mushroom has characteristic folds on the cap, and as a young fruiting body it is dark brown, chestnut, and when it matures, its cap fades to ocher, ocher yellow. The cap can be up t...

Edible lamellar mushrooms - Gilded brittlegill

2 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Russula aurea's hat is multicolored. Yellow, orange and red colors are intertwined there. It can reach up to 9 cm in diameter. When young, it has a semicircular shape, becomes flat over time, and in old age it can become concave. The surfac...

The last mushroom picking this year (I think)

2 Nov 2024 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Ostatnie grzybobranie w tym roku (chyba) 😉 It is almost certain that this was our last mushroom picking this year. But it is not because of the lack of mushrooms, because there are still plenty of them in the forest, but because we already have su...

Lurid bolete in my park?

31 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

I once went for a walk to my favorite park to do a photoshoot of a few plants. Well, actually I'm still on a walk, because the post is being written on a bench, and the photos are raw, unedited, completely spontaneous. What was my surprise when...

Greenish fly agaric death after 20 grams of the fungus

30 Oct 2024 1 minute read 2 comments madventure

  This beautiful and innocent looking mushroom is the most poisonous mushroom known in Europe. Supposedly, the lethal dose is 20 grams, which is one small fruiting body. This fungus contains 3 groups of toxic substances, i.e. phallotoxins,...

A magical journey through the Jurassic forests. In search of...

25 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

Magiczna podróż po jurajskich lasach. W poszukiwaniu... Today I took, or rather we took, a magical journey with my wife through the forests of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It was supposed to be a rest and relaxation, and that's what happened. Dzis...

Giant polypore - Giant edible mushroom with anti-cancer properties

24 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Scientific studies in mice have shown that the methanol extract of this fungus contains compounds that are destructive to 3LL cancer cells in mice It is one of the largest hub mushrooms in the world, both in terms of size and weight. A mus...