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Hypocreopsis lichenoides - Very rare species of mushrooms

7 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  I know that this is not like a mushroom. Remember Jenak that a mushroom is not always a leg and a hat. Sometimes the forms of mushrooms surprise even scientists who have seen more than one. This mushroom is an example of such a freak, whos...

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...

Hemileccinum depilatum - A scalloped scallop, a rare edible mushroom, where does the name come from?

17 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment 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...

Helvella spadicea - Bactericidal properties

27 Jun 2025 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...

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...

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...

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...

Red-belted conk - half a year later, what changes?

25 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  At the end of December last year, on a live tree, I spotted a fungus resembling the shape of common polypore. Yes, it was and still is an arboreal fungus, but it is called "Red-belted conk". I decided to visit the site of this mushroom a...

Dead man's fingers - mushrooms with unusual shapes

25 Apr 2025 1 minute read 1 comment 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 to 3 cm....

Imperator luteocupreus Bertèa & Estadés - Very rare species of mushrooms

22 Apr 2025 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  The cap of an adult mushroom can be up to 13 cm in diameter. Yellow, orange-yellow and even red. In youth, like most porcini mushrooms, the fruiting body has a semicircular shape, later it becomes flat. When touched, the hat turns blue, bec...